Hi!
I've been using FreeBSD 9 on a fairly old computer based on Intel® DG45FC motherboard, with a Celeron 64bit CPU. After 3 years lying there gathering dust, I've decided to repurpose it and run the latest release.
So far, I've been unsuccessful at booting FreeBSD 10.3/11.0-RELEASE (AMD64). I've tried two different USB sticks, which I tested them with other distributions (Alpine Linux), to make sure that the machine was actually able to boot off of a USB stick. It worked both with legacy BIOS mode and UEFI.
Nevertheless, none of the following was successful:
Does anyone have any suggestion on how to debug this better? I'm practically stuck: It never occurred anything like this before on this machine.
Thanks!
I've been using FreeBSD 9 on a fairly old computer based on Intel® DG45FC motherboard, with a Celeron 64bit CPU. After 3 years lying there gathering dust, I've decided to repurpose it and run the latest release.
So far, I've been unsuccessful at booting FreeBSD 10.3/11.0-RELEASE (AMD64). I've tried two different USB sticks, which I tested them with other distributions (Alpine Linux), to make sure that the machine was actually able to boot off of a USB stick. It worked both with legacy BIOS mode and UEFI.
Nevertheless, none of the following was successful:
- dd-ing the memstick.img (tried the memstick-mini.img, too) file straight onto the USB drive
- installing syslinux or GRUB2 on the USB stick, and use it to boot the memstick.img or the dvd1 or disk1.iso images. For the ISO files, I've tried TrueOS/PC-BSD GRUB2 menu entries, to make sure that the bootloader was correctly informed about the kernel and modules' locations on disk. I've also tried chainloading, but was not successful.
Does anyone have any suggestion on how to debug this better? I'm practically stuck: It never occurred anything like this before on this machine.
Thanks!