From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 22 17:59:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B26610656A7 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kuku@kukulies.org) Received: from werkwelt.de (post.werkwelt.de [91.194.85.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C18C8FC14 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.79.34.228] (account kuku@kukulies.org HELO [172.27.4.215]) by werkwelt.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.13) with ESMTPSA id 6752735; Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4B59E764.40906@kukulies.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0100 From: Christoph Kukulies User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fbsd1 References: <4B581838.8010107@kukulies.org> <4B586142.3020404@a1poweruser.com> <4B5861E1.7030800@kukulies.org> <4B59AABA.6030301@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <4B59AABA.6030301@a1poweruser.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:59:21 -0000 Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. I will try out your method below now. kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: at usbus4 umass0: on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000 umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) /tmp/l12: unmodified, readonly: line 1 kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: at usbus4 umass0: on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000 umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 # -- Christoph