FreeBSD-10.0 image error

youngunix

youngunix

I'm having an issue booting FreeBSD-10 from a USB stick (to install it on a disk). The following command is used to install the image on the USB stick (on Linux):
$ dd if=FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64K

But, at boot I get a "Missing boot loader" error. Checked the MD5 to make sure the image is not corrupt and it came out clean. Any idea to why it won't boot?

Thanks all.
 
You need to write the image to the USB drive itself, not to a partition on the drive.
 
Thank you guys for the replies. I suspected that was the problem but it turns out the USB stick had some issues of its own (I used a different one). However, trying to install FreeBSD on a UEFI machine, I'm still faced with the error below that you might have seen everywhere. Can't find a solution to it yet.
Code: 
ahcich0: Timeout on slot 0
ahcich0: is 00000000 cs 40000000 ss 00000000 rs 40000000 tfd c0 serr 00000000
 
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