Bug 227049

Summary:	Only GPT USB Installation Image Available
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	freebsd.org
Component:	misc	Assignee:	FreeBSD Release Engineering <re>
Status:	New ---
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	emaste
Priority:	---
Version:	11.1-RELEASE
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any

Description freebsd.org 2018-03-28 19:23:12 UTC

I recently downloaded the latest (v11.1) FreeBSD USB release installation image and burnt it to a USB stick.  However, my Intel D945-GCLF2 based PC completely ignores booting from the USB stick when attached (but happily boots other USB sticks), and I suspect that it is because the USB image uses the GPT schema.  I believe previous versions of FreeBSD (eg. 10.4) used to provide both MBR and GPT USB installation images so an MBR version is needed for v11.1 (and future versions) of FreeBSD.

Comment 1 Ed Maste freebsd_committer

2018-05-24 19:01:16 UTC

As a test, can you grab the image from https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image.amd64.xz, uncompress it and write it to a USB stick, and try booting in BIOS and UEFI modes?