From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 10:00:25 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D3B9F77 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5ABEBCEA for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:00:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t09A0PnT066618 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2015 10:00:25 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 195744] Unable to boot FreeBSD 10.1 memstick image; readin failed Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:00:25 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Base System X-Bugzilla-Component: kern X-Bugzilla-Version: 10.1-RELEASE X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Only Me X-Bugzilla-Who: joecarmstrong+fbsd@gmail.com X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 10:00:25 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=195744 joecarmstrong+fbsd@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |joecarmstrong+fbsd@gmail.co | |m --- Comment #2 from joecarmstrong+fbsd@gmail.com --- I have exactly the same issue, and have made no progress. Laptop: Chromebook Pixel with Developer mode and SeaBIOS enabled as per: http://vger.kernel.org/~davem/chromebook_pixel_linux.txt 32GB SSD Intel CORE i5 Ivy Bridge with Panther Point PCH Flash Drives tried: Strontium 16GB Apacer 4GB Formatting USB Drives with Disk Utility on OSX as Fat32, tried MBR and GUID. Also tried formatting with Windows. Using DD on OSX to write to the bootable USBs: dd if=FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=64k conv=sync Tried: FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-memstick.img Noticed the comment RE mem=XX, which is mentioned at step 7) of the above link. Have not figured out how to set this kernel parameter on FreeBSD. --------------- Output of the screen -------------------- /boot/kernel/kernel text=0xf8f898 readin failed elf64_loadimage: read failed can't load file '/boot/kernel/kernel': input/output error Error while including /boot/menu.rc, in the line: menu-display - Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... /boot/kernel/kernel text=0xf8f898 readin failed can't load 'kernel' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help OK -------------------------------------------------------- -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.