> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Aitken > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:55 PM > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues > > I've got a Crucial m4 SSD which needs a firmware upgrade. > From the Crucial website I've downloaded an image which supposedly is an > iso image bootable from either CD or a usb stick. > > Since the fbsd install images are different for booting from cd and usb flash > drives (the flash image is significantly larger), I'm wondering if there's > anything I need to be aware of when attempting this. > > I tried copying the ssd firmware update image to a flash drive using: > dd if=firmwareupdate.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=64k which seemed to work. > > However, when I attempt to boot the device, BIOS complains about it not > being bootable and says to fix it or select something else which is bootable. > > I know the drive can be bootable because I used it for the fbsd 9.1 usb boot > image and it worked fine. > > The documentation for the SSD firmware upgrade says "Create a Bootable > USB Drive" > with the following steps (summarized here, no real content omitted): > > 1. Start with a newly formatted USB drive > 2. Open a USB installer program. If you don't have one, you may download > a free one such as Universal USB Installer... > 3. If you are using the Universal USB Installer, then: > 3a. At the Step 1 drop down box, scroll to the bottom and select > the last option: Try Unlisted Linux ISO > 3b. Go to step 2 (in the pgm) and browse to the firmware ISO that you > downloaded earlier > 3c. Go to step 3 (in the pgm) and select the flash drive on which you > want to install the ISO > 3d. Click the Create button and click Format E:\Drive > 3e. A sequence of screens will appear and disappear... > > The above is all highly confusing to me, as it's not clear who's doing what. > I'm guessing the "Universal Installer Program" actually writes a boot block > and then the bootable image someplace beyond that, and the iso image > supplied is not really a complete bootable image for a flash drive -- it's > missing the boot blocks. > > Can anyone suggest a way to create a bootable flash drive using this image? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Please see the below site for a script to convert the .ISO into a .IMG that can be dd written to the thumb drive http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4361 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
