Solved whats with the BETA's not booting on my laptop?

[userxbw]

I've got a slice,partition (pick a term) and I've been casully wanting to install yet another OS on my laptop, all of the *BSDs but dragonfly fail to boot off usb stick. these BETAs get to that one part where it says the drive letters then that little trilly thing (the / spinning around if it was working) just sits there stuck. The BETA releases are suppose to be install able or of course bootable yes?
dd if=FreeBSD-12.1-BETA3-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdc bs=1MB && sync (in linux) and that other usb name in FreeBSD, I've tried both OSes to make the usb stick yet no luck in getting it to completely boot so I can try to install it, just to check it out.

 

[SirDice]

What kind of hardware do you have?

 

[userxbw]

What kind of hardware do you have?

The kind that use to work just fine with it. ?

artix:[userx]:~% hw
cpu:                                                          
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2633 MHz
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2588 MHz
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2656 MHz
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5300U CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2621 MHz
keyboard:
  /dev/input/event3    AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
mouse:
  /dev/input/mice      Logitech M105 Optical Mouse
  /dev/input/mice      Atmel maXTouch Digitizer
  /dev/input/mice      PS/2 Generic Mouse
  /dev/input/mice      SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
joystick:
  /dev/input/event15   ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer
monitor:
                       LCD Monitor
graphics card:
                       Hewlett-Packard Company ZBook 15u G2 Mobile Workstation
sound:
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller
                       Intel Broadwell-U Audio Controller
storage:
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode]
network:
  wlan0                Intel Dual Band Wireless-N 7265
  eth0                 Intel Ethernet Connection (3) I218-LM
network interface:
  wlan0                WLAN network interface
  eth0                 Ethernet network interface
  lo                   Loopback network interface
disk:
  /dev/sdb             CHN NGFFSA2242 2
  /dev/mmcblk0         Disk
  /dev/sda             Samsung SSD 860
partition:
  /dev/sdb1            Partition
  /dev/sdb2            Partition
  /dev/sdb3            Partition
  /dev/sdb4            Partition
  /dev/sdb5            Partition
  /dev/sdb6            Partition
  /dev/sdb7            Partition
  /dev/sdb8            Partition
  /dev/sdb9            Partition
  /dev/mmcblk0p1       Partition
  /dev/sda1            Partition
  /dev/sda2            Partition
usb controller:
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller
bios:
                       BIOS
bridge:
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4
                       Intel Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #2
hub:
                       Standard Microsystems Hub
                       Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
                       Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
                       Standard Microsystems Hub
                       Intel Hub
                       Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
memory:
                       Main Memory
bluetooth:
                       Intel Bluetooth Device
unknown:
                       FPU
                       DMA controller
                       PIC
                       Keyboard controller
                       Realtek RTS5227 PCI Express Card Reader
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1
                       Intel Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller
                       Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink) HP HD Webcam

 

[yuripv]

I have seen loader being stuck on the "disks" that have no media (it's most likely already fixed in development branch or this is something new, just guessing), try disabling the "/dev/mmcblk0 Disk" thing in BIOS (it's card reader, right?).

 

[userxbw]

I have seen loader being stuck on the "disks" that have no media (it's most likely already fixed in development branch or this is something new, just guessing), try disabling the "/dev/mmcblk0 Disk" thing in BIOS (it's card reader, right?).

I don't recall seeing it, I'll look again, and pull the card I have in it, its ext4 formatted.

 

[yuripv]

If it doesn't help, it would be useful to report this on freebsd-stable mailing list with as much disk/partition information as possible.

 

[userxbw]

Oh crap wrong post, I am having boot issue for my already installed one v 12 p10, I've been thinking that this is what that is about...

 

[userxbw]

I am going to mark this soluved and proceed accordingly.