Booting the img stick

Yes, there has been no change, I haven't yet ran with your last suggestions, when I say unchanged...i do mean it ;)
I'm actually pretty hopeful in disabling the graphics driver, that could certainly be it. I'll try it (along with the others) when I get more awake.
 
dbarron said:
Yes, there has been no change, I haven't yet ran with your last suggestions, when I say unchanged...i do mean it ;)
I'm actually pretty hopeful in disabling the graphics driver, that could certainly be it. I'll try it (along with the others) when I get more awake.
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Okay, good luck. Is the error message still the same? Which one?
 
At least my take on it, is there is no error shown, those are simply initial messages from the kernel...but what you see (in the graphic) is what I get as the end result.
Sure wish there was a way to test this like in 'virtualbox', but then I wouldn't be testing the same thing/environment :(
 
The:
"efi framebuffer information"
message with the
address and size...
...
...
staging 0x76e00000
...
points to a problem with the graphics card.
That is more than likely.
 
Ok, how do I put the directive into loader.conf when I can't boot? (btw, the other parameters alone didn't change anything) as entered as 'set' commands then issuing a 'boot', that was what you meant, right? (I'd hate to think I was doing it all wrong the whole time, but would be glad to learn.).
Remember, I may be a techie, but I'm not an experienced BSD user (at least yet).
 
You have a boot menu look at the options to pass settings option 7 Option 2 is to enter a shell (sh) But first press the spacebar You will have time to study this menu
This is the way to pass parameters from boot
You validate a command and the boot will continue for the installation
 
FreeBSD isn't Linux—where you just tinker here and there to see if things work.
If you want to use FreeBSD, start by reading the Handbook and following it to perform a clean installation.
Only then—once you've done that—will others be able to help you.
Otherwise, everyone is just wasting their time.
You were given plenty of information, but you didn't apply any of it because you didn't even know how to enter parameters at the installation menu.
 
I'm also very new to FreeBSD, and I also have some limited experience with Linux. However, I do remember having a similar problem creating my installation media when I was first starting out. In my case, I did all sorts of things like trying to use the boot disk creator built into Ubuntu, and I think that I also tried using balenaEtcher, but in each attempt I managed to only create botched installation USB thumb drive media that would not allow me to do an installation. I think that most likely it was my fault, and I probably didn't click the correct options when I was using the above software to burn ISO image to my USB thumb drive.

After several hours of continually stubbing my toes, I decided to try the below dd command, or one very similar to it, and it worked. I think that I was using Ubuntu 22.04 when I did this, but I think that it should be roughly the same throughout most of Linux. But again, I'm no expert. Also, you will have to adjust the path within the below command to fit the location of your ISO, and also the designation of the USB media on your system. Also, I remember that it still wouldn't work unless I selected the UEFI boot option in the F8 boot menu. Hope this helps. Your mileage may vary.

Code: 
dd if=/home/Steven/Downloads/FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=sync
 
fjdlr said:
FreeBSD isn't Linux—where you just tinker here and there to see if things work.
If you want to use FreeBSD, start by reading the Handbook and following it to perform a clean installation.
Only then—once you've done that—will others be able to help you.
Otherwise, everyone is just wasting their time.
You were given plenty of information, but you didn't apply any of it because you didn't even know how to enter parameters at the installation menu.
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I suppose I deserve that, and I can only plead that I'd successfully dabbled in FreeBSD in the past and installed it multiple times (but without issue). I'll refresh my memory of the relevant chapter before I continue. I will also try to apply what I (re)learn from the beginning of this thread if applicable. I do appreciate the input of others, I've spent a lot of time on the OTHER side of this interaction on other OSs.
Obviously, I have successfully installed FreeBSD (on my laptop) even this time.
 
I wish that my install splash screen was like that. Only a very few times that graphic screen as appeared in my laptop at the start of login. Then never again I saw it.
 
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