> > Hi.
> >
> > Are you shure you're using *.memstick.img?
>
> I am shure I am NOT using memstick, as the subject says
> I am using:
> FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso
>
>
> > *.iso are for optical drives.
>
> Ah, not since 12.0, these are now "hybrid" type images that
> are designed to be written to either a dvd or memstick.
>
> > If your memstick can perfectly (or at least enough for CD loader and
> > kernel) mimic optical drive, maybe with help by firmware, it would be
> > able to boot.
> >
> > Otherwise, you should write FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-*-memstick.img with
> > dd. If you are using enough-sized memstick and amd64 arch PC,
> > FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-amd64-mrmstick.img should be preferred.
> >
> > Note that if you downloaded smaller xz compressed image, you shoule
> > decompress it before writing.
> >
> > If you are using *-memstick.img, something should need fixed.
>
> I have tested the memstick image it works fine.
>
> I have also done further investigation and this appears to be
> a Legacy/bios vs EFI mode issue. All legacy only machines
> fail to boot with the above error, all dual mode machines
> must be forced into either EFI only, or dual mode/EFI first
> inorder to boot these images. EFI only machines boot fine.
>
> Is what it looks like is we have lost the ability to boot
> the .iso images in bios mode from a memory stick. I have
> NOT done any testing on dvd media.
>
> Further note all of this works fine upto and including BETA4
> on all my legacy bios machines, though I do see another
> environment that fails at BETA4 and continues to, but that
> is rather special, called ventoy:
> https://www.ventoy.net/
> that environment is probably looking very much like a
> legacy BIOS system as to the way I have my ventoy setup.
This now works again at RC4.
> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 01:06:14 -0800 (PST)
> > "Rodney W. Grimes" <free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Glen,
> > > Things get worse... I could at least boot the BETA4 .iso when
> > > I wrote it to a memstick. I can NOT boot the RC1. I have checked
> > > the sha512 of my image, wrote it twice, same results, I get:
>
> I have now had Michael Dexter duplicate my findings, if he
> sets his machines to either legacy first, or legacy only
> he gets the same boot failures that I do when using the
> FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso
> image.
>
> > >
> > > CD Loader 1.2
> > >
> > > Bulding the boot loader arguments
> > > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... File not found
> > > Looking up /boot/loader... File not found
> > > Boot failed
> > >
> > > I have tried 2 different systems, all known to have booted and
> > > installed many many many FreeBSD's from prior .iso written to
> > > memstick.
>
> Now expanded to 4 systems, 2 of which can do dual mode Legacy/EFI.
This issue is fixed in RC4, tested on:
Thankpads: w530 legacy & uefi
x230 legacy & uefi
t400 legacy
p61 legacy
Acer: 1410 legacy
> > > Regards,
> > > Rod Grimes
> > > rgri...@freebsd.org
> > Tomoaki AOKI <junch...@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
> Rod Grimes rgri...@freebsd.org
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