Today, I decided to install FreeBSD on an "extra" HD in two of my computers here. Both 'pooters are presently running WinDoze 10 Pro. First, using Firebox, I downloaded the version 12.1 amd64 ISOs for DVD1 for Disk1, and for Bootonly, and the memstick image, with the idea of installing FreeBSD on other computers as needed. Then I burnt a DVD, a CD, and a memstick.
I used Nero for the CD and DVD and ImageBurn for the memstick.
Adjusting the BIOS in two desktop computers to boot from which ever media I used resulted in total failure to boot. The CD and DVD both started to boot, but eventually returned an error telling me that the file BOOT/LUA/LOADER.LUA could not be found. Yet looking at the media with a file explorer finds that file is there.
The memstick was "looked at" by the 'pooter, but nothing happens. I know both machines will boot from a USB flash drive, because I have an Ubuntu distro on one which works fine. The memstick contains one directory efi/boot, and two files, BOOTx64.efi and startup.nsh in the boot directory. I can't see how the computer can boot from a file that is two directory levels deep, but that is just me.
Assuming (a bad idea) that my CD/DVD media may have been bad, I re-burnt the ISOs. I got the same result: nothing works and I get the same error message.
Thinking that perhaps Firefox downloaded the files in ASCII, I fired up FileZilla (latest version), set it to BINARY, and downloaded all the files again, and again burnt them to CD/DVD with ISOBurner.
Same result.
So....obviously I either I am doing something wrong, or WinDoze 10 has an issue I don't know about.
Can anyone help with this? This is irritating the heck out of me.
FYI, I had used FreeBSD for many years while I worked at the University of Idaho. The first time I used it was at least 30 years ago. I liked it a lot. I used it to support an e-mail and webserver for the University department for which I worked, until the U finally did that for all of us. A couple of years ago, I installed TrueOS on my shop computer. Although it works OK, I am not really too impressed with it, and want to go back to straight FreeBSD.
Ken Gordon
I used Nero for the CD and DVD and ImageBurn for the memstick.
Adjusting the BIOS in two desktop computers to boot from which ever media I used resulted in total failure to boot. The CD and DVD both started to boot, but eventually returned an error telling me that the file BOOT/LUA/LOADER.LUA could not be found. Yet looking at the media with a file explorer finds that file is there.
The memstick was "looked at" by the 'pooter, but nothing happens. I know both machines will boot from a USB flash drive, because I have an Ubuntu distro on one which works fine. The memstick contains one directory efi/boot, and two files, BOOTx64.efi and startup.nsh in the boot directory. I can't see how the computer can boot from a file that is two directory levels deep, but that is just me.
Assuming (a bad idea) that my CD/DVD media may have been bad, I re-burnt the ISOs. I got the same result: nothing works and I get the same error message.
Thinking that perhaps Firefox downloaded the files in ASCII, I fired up FileZilla (latest version), set it to BINARY, and downloaded all the files again, and again burnt them to CD/DVD with ISOBurner.
Same result.
So....obviously I either I am doing something wrong, or WinDoze 10 has an issue I don't know about.
Can anyone help with this? This is irritating the heck out of me.
FYI, I had used FreeBSD for many years while I worked at the University of Idaho. The first time I used it was at least 30 years ago. I liked it a lot. I used it to support an e-mail and webserver for the University department for which I worked, until the U finally did that for all of us. A couple of years ago, I installed TrueOS on my shop computer. Although it works OK, I am not really too impressed with it, and want to go back to straight FreeBSD.
Ken Gordon