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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2018 09:11:25 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com>
Cc:        Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>,  Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)
Message-ID:  <CAPyFy2DT1qTs2v9rmEoiPs5OduKLQTMrnnm1jSY5xCy19TXe6w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
> I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and
> FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
> BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized.

Can you download the image from
https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image.amd64.xz, uncompress and
write it to a USB stick and try on this system? This is a
MBR-partitioned dual-mode test image. It's not an installer - it
should just boot to a login prompt - but can be used to test this
scheme.



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