Solved Can't boot to installer in 14.0-RELEASE iso

nxjoseph · Nov 23, 2023

Hi. My USB has Ventoy installed and when I try booting FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso image, I go with default options from loader but it reboots the system. How to troubleshoot this? I can't even read logs, I see messages like 1 second then it reboots.

I verified checksum of the image too. I am going try it without Ventoy.

My hardware: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=c60aeb219e

nxjoseph · Nov 23, 2023

I grab the mini memstick image and wrote it to another usb with recommended software as told in wiki and it booted to the installer successfully.

balanga · Nov 23, 2023

nxjoseph said:
Hi. My USB has Ventoy installed and when I try booting FreeBSD-14.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso image, I go with default options from loader but it reboots the system. How to troubleshoot this? I can't even read logs, I see messages like 1 second then it reboots.

I verified checksum of the image too. I am going try it without Ventoy.

My hardware: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=c60aeb219e

I can confirm that 14.0-R crashes almost immediately when booting from Ventoy. There isn't even chance to see what the problem is.

13.1-R and 13.2-R boot OK.

Sergio Arana · Nov 30, 2023

balanga said:
I can confirm that 14.0-R crashes almost immediately when booting from Ventoy. There isn't even chance to see what the problem is.

13.1-R and 13.2-R boot OK.

The samething happens with my setup. 13.2 works fine, but I want to install 14.0 I will put the image on a USB stick by itself and see how it goes. Thanks so much for the great input. I will chat later.

balanga · Nov 30, 2023

Sergio Arana said:
The samething happens with my setup. 13.2 works fine, but I want to install 14.0 I will put the image on a USB stick by itself and see how it goes. Thanks so much for the great input. I will chat later.

Have you tried booting from https://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/iso/14/amd64/mfsbsd-se-14.0-RELEASE-amd64.iso
using Ventoy?

Sergio Arana · Nov 30, 2023

Hi guys, the rebooting problem install FreeBSD 14.0 was with Ventoy. I burn the amd64 ISO image to another USB stick and it works fine on both laptops. Thank you so much to all of you for you great help.

Sergio Arana · Nov 30, 2023

balanga said:
I can confirm that 14.0-R crashes almost immediately when booting from Ventoy. There isn't even chance to see what the problem is.

13.1-R and 13.2-R boot OK.

rmomota said:
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Hi guys, the rebooting problem installing FreeBSD 14.0 was with Ventoy. I burn the amd64 ISO image to another USB stick by itself and it works fine on both laptops. Thank you so much to all of you for you great help.