Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 11:02:48 +0000 From: Bap <bap-fbsd-stable@a1.org.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did somebody boot old Sony Vaio laptop from FreeBSD memstick successfully? Message-ID: <20140128110248.Horde.MbimUBauknlS545YF3OAIRA@mail.a1.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <976149194.20140128115104@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <976149194.20140128115104@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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Quoting Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>: > Hello, All. > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10-R (i386) on old Sony Vaio laptop (it is > VGN-SZ340P, Merom generation of Core2, ~2007). > > It allows to select "USB Hard drive" or "USB Optical Drive" as boot device, > but it writes "No operating system" in both cases. > > I've checked memstick and found, that it doesn't have MBR (it looks like > /dev/da4a). I've added MBR, one slice, mbr bootcode, make this slice > active, and dump memstick image to /dev/da4s1. My desktop boots from this > memstick without problems, laptop says "No boot code". > > Unfortunately, this Laptop has broken CD-ROM (and it looks like by DVD-RW > drive in desktop is disgunctional too, I've tried to do something with it 4 > years ago). > > Maybe, somebody has experience of booting such old Sony Vaio from FreeBSD > memstick and here is some trick to do this? Not sure about a Vaio, but I have many machines that will not boot from larger memory sticks. Creating a 1G partion on a big stick and dd-ing onto that works for those machines. HTH, Bap > > -- > // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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