Hi FreeBSD Community,
I wanted to install FreeBSD on my old PC, just to play around a little, and maybe write some software for it, just for the fun of it. I'm nowhere near a proffesional, so please have mercy on me. And patience, lots of patience.
Anyway, first I installed FreeBSD 9.2, via a memstick image, which worked like a charm. Only problem is, my Realtek 8188 wireless card was not supported on that version. I found some patches for the source in this forum that might or might not work, but as I'm not experienced at all, I really don't want to compile a patched FreeBSD version from source on day 1.
So I decided to use FreeBSD 10.4 instead. When I try to boot from the usb stick, there is a brief flash of some "Checksum Error" (I can't read it fully, it's only there for a split second) and the screen goes black. Then the (still installed) FreeBSD 9.2 boots. I tried 10.2 as well, same problem. I checked the checksums, the image is definitely fine. There is no real error message or anything, it just doesn't want to boot the stick. I even tried different USB sticks.
Is there something new in the 10.X memstick images that lead to this error?
My PC is some old Medion PC with a Intel Pentium Duo T4500 processor, if that is of any use. Oh, and I burned the img via the Rufus tool. But I also used it for the 9.2 version, so that should be fine, shouldn't it?
Cheers and thanks for the help,
Zorquan.
I wanted to install FreeBSD on my old PC, just to play around a little, and maybe write some software for it, just for the fun of it. I'm nowhere near a proffesional, so please have mercy on me. And patience, lots of patience.
Anyway, first I installed FreeBSD 9.2, via a memstick image, which worked like a charm. Only problem is, my Realtek 8188 wireless card was not supported on that version. I found some patches for the source in this forum that might or might not work, but as I'm not experienced at all, I really don't want to compile a patched FreeBSD version from source on day 1.
So I decided to use FreeBSD 10.4 instead. When I try to boot from the usb stick, there is a brief flash of some "Checksum Error" (I can't read it fully, it's only there for a split second) and the screen goes black. Then the (still installed) FreeBSD 9.2 boots. I tried 10.2 as well, same problem. I checked the checksums, the image is definitely fine. There is no real error message or anything, it just doesn't want to boot the stick. I even tried different USB sticks.
Is there something new in the 10.X memstick images that lead to this error?
My PC is some old Medion PC with a Intel Pentium Duo T4500 processor, if that is of any use. Oh, and I burned the img via the Rufus tool. But I also used it for the 9.2 version, so that should be fine, shouldn't it?
Cheers and thanks for the help,
Zorquan.