Create kFreeBSD USB-Stick

Create kFreeBSD USB-Stick

Logo of the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project Credit: Debian/Open Use Logo Licence.

Logo of the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project Credit: Debian/Open Use Logo Licence.

Today i’m gonna explain you how to Create kFreeBSD USB-Stick

As you already might realized creating USB-Boot Stick for kFreeBSD could drive you nuts,
because there is none hdd-image yet to handle that.

Prerequisites: Network Internet Connection

I’ve found a nice solutions for that without setting up an PXE-GRUB LAN Boot System but using the PXE ISO Image from Debian Mirror.

 

All you have to is downloading the latest mini.iso from any mirror out of the of your choice. For my example: http://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/kfreebsd-amd64/daily/netboot-9/mini.iso and put it on your empty USB-Stick.

Write the iso Image to your USB-Stick

For Example on Linux:

dd if=/path/to/your/mini.iso of=/dev/XXXX ; sync

XXXX = your USB Drive Name

Remove and reinsert your USB-Stick.

That’s it.

 

Rating: 5.0/5. From 1 vote.
Please wait...
Jules

Jules

Jules is the owner and author of ISPIRE.ME. He's a Linux System Engineer, Tech fanatic and an Open Source fan.

You may also like...

12 Responses

  1. eddie eddie says:

    Does not work

    No votes yet.
    Please wait...
    • Jules Jules says:

      Hi Eddie,

      can you explain this a little bit more. What have you tried to do and what exactly does not work. Not booting the USB Stick, Installer fails?

      No votes yet.
      Please wait...
  2. qwe qwe says:

    It gives kernel panic when I try to boot from USB.

    No votes yet.
    Please wait...
    • Jules Jules says:

      Hi Qwe,

      can you tell me what kernel panic error message you get?
      Have you tried to boot the USB-Stick via UEFI or old MBR method?

      No votes yet.
      Please wait...
      • qwe qwe says:

        It wasn’t kernel panic, the error is “Fatal trap 12: Page fault within kernel mode”, then it reboots. This is after choosing the installation method.

        I guess I’m booting from MBR, sinse I’ve never heard of UEFI and this machine is rather old (~6 years old).

        No votes yet.
        Please wait...
        • Jules Jules says:

          Try enabling IO APIC in your motherboard BIOS and play with your acpi settings there.
          There is also an Acpi disable feature when you boot up the stick which is worth a try.
          There seems to be an adress conflict between your mainboard and kernel drivers.

          No votes yet.
          Please wait...
          • qwe qwe says:

            Thanks!
            Enabling “ACPI APIC support” in BIOS solved it.

            No votes yet.
            Please wait...
          • Jules Jules says:

            Hi Qwe,

            good to hear that 😉

            No votes yet.
            Please wait...
  3. Gonzalo Gonzalo says:

    TIo esto no tira ni para atrás, ni usando dd, ni usando unetbooting y la explicación del manual es demasiado pobre y genérica, empiezo a sospechar que nadie sabe instalarlo.

    Fuente: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/kfreebsd-i386/ch04s03.html.es

    No votes yet.
    Please wait...
    • Jules Jules says:

      What?

      English please!

      No votes yet.
      Please wait...
  4. Gonzalo Gonzalo says:

    sorry I forgot that this is in english, that doesn’t work and my Bios does not let me config ACPI and unetbooting doesn’t work too

    No votes yet.
    Please wait...
    • Jules Jules says:

      Have you tried booting at the kernel prompt with:
      set hint.apic.0.disabled=”1″
      boot
      or
      set hint.acpi.0.disabled=”1″
      boot

      No votes yet.
      Please wait...

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.