Create kFreeBSD USB-Stick
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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.
Does not work
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?
It gives kernel panic when I try to boot from USB.
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?
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).
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.
Thanks!
Enabling “ACPI APIC support” in BIOS solved it.
Hi Qwe,
good to hear that 😉
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
What?
English please!
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
Have you tried booting at the kernel prompt with:
set hint.apic.0.disabled=”1″
boot
or
set hint.acpi.0.disabled=”1″
boot