Solved [Solved] Installing from USB

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hashime

I tried to install FreeBSD 10 from a USB stick on my laptop. I downloaded FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img and put it on the stick with dd. However, when I boot my laptop from the USB stick I get the following error message:

Code: 
da0: <Kingston blabla> s/n  blablabla detached
(da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Periph destroyed
Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeBSD_Install faild with error 19.
...

mountroot>

Any suggestions?
 
Re: Installing from USB

(Dodgy download?)
If you dd the .image file to USB, it will boot up to the installation screen. What I see from what you describe is that you installed it to a secondary drive, & and you are now trying to boot it as the primary. You will need to change it once you have booted. If you type a ? at the mountroot prompt it should show you which partitions are available to boot from.
 
Re: Installing from USB

Download is fine, also tried PC-BSD, same error. I followed the instructions from https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/bs ... l-pre.html.

dd if=FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdc bs=64k since I created the USB stick on a Linux box.

I have not installed anything yet, it fails on the first boot from the USB stick.
? gives me the following options:
Code: 
List of GEOM managed disk devices:
diskid/DISK-BLAs2 diskid/DISK.BLAs1 ext2fs/root diskid/DISK-BLA ada0s2 ada0s1 ada0

This reads to me as if FreeBSD does not see the USB stick da0? any more? ada0 should be my SSD with Linux on it.
 
Re: Installing from USB

Try a USB memory stick of a different brand. Some of the USB media devices do have problems on FreeBSD because of a multitude of different slightly varying interpretations of the USB standard and limited resources to test all the possible USB devices that are on the market.
 
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