Created attachment 150266 [details] Screen output when booting FreeBSD memstick image I can't boot FreeBSD memstick image from USB. The boot menu can display successfully but then fail to boot. Tried to use other image including : 1. FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img 2. FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img 3. FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-memstick.img 4. FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-mini-memstick.img And tried to use other USB storage device including : 1. TDK 8GB Flash Drive 2. WD MyPassport 500GB HDD 3. USB card reader with 2GB NOKIA mini-SD card Computer : *** ASUS ChromeBox M004U ( CN60 ) *** CPU : Celeron 2955U 1.4GHz RAM : 8GB ( 4GB X2 ; 1.35V ; DDR3 ; Crucial ) SSD : Transcend 128 GB SATA III 6Gb/s MTS400 All memstick image has tested with md5 and sha256sum. Tried to use DD on Linux and win32imagewriter on Windows to create the USB drive, but neither of them works. Linux including Fedora/Ubuntu/OpenSUSE can boot and install successfully on this machine. Not sure why FreeBSD is unable to boot. Screenshot attached for reference. --------------- Output of the screen -------------------- /boot/kernel/kernel text=0xf8f898 readin failed elf64_loadimage: read failed can't load file '/boot/kernel/kernel': input/output error Error while including /boot/menu.rc, in the line: menu-display - Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... /boot/kernel/kernel text=0xf8f898 readin failed can't load 'kernel' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help OK -------------------------------------------------------- ------ Command used to copy image to usb drive --------- umount /dev/sdc umount /dev/sdc4 clear dd if=FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/sdc bs=64k sync reboot -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ Sha256sum of image ------------------ 7a071894f12454442cf24ee4f19c2d21e2a8a79d54c83541d2cb7b9f48497b3e --------------------------------------------------------
Seems that some OS need to config memory size to boot. For Linux it is possible to do with "mem=XXXM" kernel parameter on boot. May i know what is the equivalent option on BSD? Thanks
This is not a supported version of FreeBSD anymore. About the memory question, that would be: #hw.physmem="1G" # Limit physical memory. See loader(8) #vm.kmem_size="" # Sets the size of kernel memory (bytes)