On 09/28/13 05:22, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/09/28 10:46, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: >> The attached diff adds a new subsection about creating bootable USB media to >> the install faq, hopefully useful and correct. > > How widely does this actually work? > > This method is common on Linux distributions but they have a specially > prepared partition table (mkhybrid) so that the dd'd image is valid for > writing to a hard-drive-like device, whereas OpenBSD isos are just plain > cd images. >
lemme extend this a bit: NO WAY. Not ok. This will work on some computers. I highly doubt enough to justify the phrase "most convenient". "works for me" doesn't cut it. If you want to boot from a USB stick, use a process that will work from most machines that can boot from a USB stick -- install the system to it, as documented in faq14.17. It is really easy, and really works. And even then, USB booting is so blastedly buggy on enough systems, I'll still qualify it with a "most" -- but at least that's not hoping the BIOS successfully interprets a CD image on a disk device. Plus, the formatting is poor and the FAQ is in lock for the 5.4 updates anyway. Nick.
