Memstick not bootable

fullauto2012

fullauto2012

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html

Followed the above instruction with:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ia64/ia64/ISO-IMAGES/10.3/FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-ia64-memstick.img

The hardware is:
http://www.mitxpc.com/proddetail.php?prod=EKMPD12TIT3410

I have never made a memstick before but the dd command seemed pretty reasonable.
However, I did two different memsticks on both windows with Win32DiskImager.exe and straight from FreeBSD with the dd command. None of those resulted in a bootable memstick.

I was wondering if I have to gpart the memstick first?
What am I missing here?
 
Good catch on the IA64... I pasted the wrong link... AMD64 was the image I was using...
So do I have to gpart the memstick before using win32diskimage?
 
No, the memstick images are supposed to be written directly on the drives. If you initialize the drive before the write with a partition table it doesn't matter, the image contents will overwrite whatever was on the drive including the partition tables.
 
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