Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:42:39 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did somebody boot old Sony Vaio laptop from FreeBSD memstick successfully? Message-ID: <1777063285.20140128204239@serebryakov.spb.ru> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401280927080.49265@wonkity.com> References: <976149194.20140128115104@serebryakov.spb.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401280927080.49265@wonkity.com>
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Hello, Warren. You wrote 28 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=8F 2014 =D0=B3., 20:32:35: >> 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 devi= ce, >> 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". WB> On MBR/BSDlabel, a second chunk of bootcode must be written inside the= =20 WB> BSD partition also. Nicolas Geniteau just posted this very nice=20 WB> procedure for converting a memory stick to MBR/BSDlabel. I have not=20 WB> tried it yet, but it does write that additional bootcode. WB> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-January/25584= 1.html I tried this too... It looks like this old Laptop / BIOS wants to see special USB Floppy / USB Optical drive device, not generic "umass" one. --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org>
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