I am new to FreeBSD and have been trying to run the installer on an Intel D945GCLF2 based system. I generally use (the most excellent) WinSetUpFromUSB to perform OS installations, run diagnostic tools, disk utilities etc from a USB stick and I've not had a problem using it to install different versions of Windows and different Linux distros on various hardware, but the FreeBSD 11.1 installer (FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso) fails during the boot process with:
Mounting from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/11_1_RELEASE_AMD64_DVD failed
So at a guess the installer uses a proprietary DVD-ROM driver which doesn't like WinSetUpFromUSB emulating the ISO file as optical media. Which is a great shame! So I decided to try the USB image method. I have created a USB memory stick using Win32DiskImager.exe and FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img. However, the PC then doesn't boot from the USB stick (it ignores it at boot time). Looking at the contents under Windows, the USB stick seems to have been created with a GPT-style partition. Again, I'm guessing that my motherboard doesn't support booting GPT? Which leaves me a bit stuck...
Any help would be gratefully received as I would really like to give FreeBSD a go.
Thanks very much.
Mounting from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/11_1_RELEASE_AMD64_DVD failed
So at a guess the installer uses a proprietary DVD-ROM driver which doesn't like WinSetUpFromUSB emulating the ISO file as optical media. Which is a great shame! So I decided to try the USB image method. I have created a USB memory stick using Win32DiskImager.exe and FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img. However, the PC then doesn't boot from the USB stick (it ignores it at boot time). Looking at the contents under Windows, the USB stick seems to have been created with a GPT-style partition. Again, I'm guessing that my motherboard doesn't support booting GPT? Which leaves me a bit stuck...
Any help would be gratefully received as I would really like to give FreeBSD a go.
Thanks very much.