Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:20:40 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: One USB drive boots, the other doesn't... Message-ID: <5600293.831236378037376.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> In-Reply-To: <24302594.811236377623848.JavaMail.HALO$@halo>
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I have a process with creates bootable USB disks with FreeBSD 7.0. The creation of the USB disks is pretty straightforward. We have a master OS image saved as a tarball, and when we want to create a new USB disk, we simply create a single bootable UFS partition on the target USB drive and then extract and copy the tarball image onto the USB disk. We just got a bunch of new 4GB USB disks from a different manufacturer than we had been using and when we try to boot a system with this disk the BIOS reports a "missing operating system" error. Well, the OS is definitely not missing, so I assume that the BIOS can't read the boot info from the USB drive for some reason. Is there a way around this? Surely there must be away to get a bootable OS onto a USB drive, regardless of it's brand.
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