FreeBSD equivalent of Rufus

balanga said:
Record 0 has no FILE magic (0x44414142)
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From the (really old days :cool: ) - When mounting a UNIX based File system -- each UNIX File system was identified with a MAGIC number... (aka a series of bits in a specific place on the disk) and they might still be. But basically the disk head went to the a specific place on the platter (sector?) and tried to read the MAGIC number from the sector which would tell the Operating System (aka FreeBSD) "What kind of file system is this?" and ... it didn't find what it was looking for... and (I think?) the rest of the error messages are basically saying "I dunno what file system is on this disk .... try this, try this, etc -- and (MAYBE?) that will fix something and I can identify what type of file system this is"

At the moment I would call this: "File System unknown".

Anyway - MAGIC numbers are found in the UNIX File System Superblock - (Link Wikipedia): Wikipedia Unix_File_System

But there are smarter people than me that can answer this further. :)

Last time I worked with UNIX file system MAGIC numbers was on AT&T UNIX based systems during the "Old Republic Era" -- interesting to read that terminology still exists today!
 
balanga said:
Following your examples I created a USB stick but can't boot from it.

Does it require UEFI to boot because I'm trying it on a very old machine. There is no error msg when I'm trying to boot although nothing at all appears on screen.

If I try to mount the USB stick I get this message:-
Code: 
Incomplete multi-sector transfer: magic: 0x454c4946  size: 1024  usa_ofs: 48  usa_count: 2  data: 0  usn: 1: Input/output error
Record 0 has no FILE magic (0x44414142)
Failed to load $MFT: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/da0s1': Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
for more details.
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Time for us to ask a question. What is the partition type & filesystem of "/dev/da0s1".
Next time you say "tried" give your specific command.
 
bgavin said:
You can use Rufus to write the Hiram boot cd to usb.

I keep both in my service kit, as newer machines no longer have optical drives.
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What does Hiram give me when it is on USB?

I can boot from the ISO using Ventoy if it is included on the first Ventoy partition.

Can it provide additional functionality if it has RW access? I don't really know much about the program but use it occasionally.

Can it be used for installing Windows from an ISO?
 
CShell said:
A quick read of this (Forum Thread) "seems to read" that you (DO NOT) want to use an NTFS file system - but instead use a FAT-32 file system.

See (this) Forum post: HOWTO make a bootable UEFI Windows 10 USB in FreeBSD

From the (Forum Post):


You are doing something... I am not doing :cool:

but Good Luck !
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Actually I'm trying to do two different things which may be causing some confusion.

1. I'm trying to create a USB stick to apply the Middleton BIOS, which apparently can only be done using a 32-bit version of Windows which I don't have.

2. Get ms-sys to create a bootable USB stick of some version of Windows or even PC/MS DOS.
 
From Windows NT to Windows 10 is ok for Windows 32 bit. There are unofficial ways but you can end up with a virus...
Me I'm currently in the process of installing FreeDOS on a disk partition. Normally i don't need ms-sys.
It seems i need I need to have direct access to my hardware & network card to update checksums. I'm locked out of Linux networking because of wrong checksum.
 
Alain De Vos said:
From Windows NT to Windows 10 is ok for Windows 32 bit. There are unofficial ways but you can end up with a virus...
Me I'm currently in the process of installing FreeDOS on a disk partition. Normally i don't need ms-sys.
It seems i need I need to have direct access to my hardware & network card to update checksums. I'm locked out of Linux networking because of wrong checksum.
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The FreeDOS Project

www.freedos.org www.freedos.org

FreeDOS 1.4 just came out last week. You'll be the first in this group to try it.
 
Works. Two tips. You need at least one disk with partition scheme MBR. I you need to put grub on it with
grub-install --target=i386-pc. Everything slightly GPT/UEFI will likely fail (unless with bios boot partition).
Now see i can access network hardware and rewrite checksum ...
Then play some old games ...
 
bgavin said:
You can use Rufus to write the Hiram boot cd to usb.

I keep both in my service kit, as newer machines no longer have optical drives.
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I just came acorss an updated version of HBCD

​

Hiren's BootCD PE​




[ some hours later]


I tried downloading the above link via Chrome on both FreeBSD and Windows, on one it timed out twice after about 20 mins. on the other it shows resuming after downloading 2.0/3.1GB. This is after three hours!

So I thought I'd try this to see if it worked....

fetch https://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/HBCD_PE_x64.iso
HBCD_PE_x64.iso 3139 MB 3722 kBps 14m24s
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So if you want to retrieve it you know what to do.
 
You look for “portable” tools such as the ESET online bug scanner.

Open the ISO with an editor such as UltraISO then add files or folders. Save the ISO and burn to usb with Rufus.

All of this is done under windows, no clue how to do this under FBSD.
 
I'm writing this from Chrome running from the latest Hiren;s Boot CD based on Windows 11 which I booted via Ventoy.

It looks pretty good. I'd recommend any Hiren;s users to upgrade.

This new version goes straight into my toolkit.
 
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