Hi all,
I've tried this with a couple of different brand 8GB USB sticks....from a linux box I run the dd command:
xzcat FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x64.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sb1 bs=64k
per the docs I've been reading. I've tried this on a couple different grant USB thumb drives, and I've set the bios on a couple of my computers to boot from USB (different brands of computers), and neither my other computers nor the simple one I put together for the freeNAS box will see it as bootable. Each one, the bios comes back asking to insert a bootable device and hit return.
Am I missing something somewhere, I can't get any machine to recognize any USB drive I set up with the xcat / dd command as bootable.
The box I built for the freeNAS box is untested, it has no drives in it, no harddrives, not cd, etc. I was going to just run it 100% off the USB stick.
I figured since this was untested I'd try it out on other computers around the house, and none of them see any variation on the theme as bootable.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance....
cayenne
ps. I've tried this with other releases of the img...p1 and a couple BETA ones too...same story.
I've tried this with a couple of different brand 8GB USB sticks....from a linux box I run the dd command:
xzcat FreeNAS-8.3.1-RELEASE-p2-x64.img.xz | dd of=/dev/sb1 bs=64k
per the docs I've been reading. I've tried this on a couple different grant USB thumb drives, and I've set the bios on a couple of my computers to boot from USB (different brands of computers), and neither my other computers nor the simple one I put together for the freeNAS box will see it as bootable. Each one, the bios comes back asking to insert a bootable device and hit return.
Am I missing something somewhere, I can't get any machine to recognize any USB drive I set up with the xcat / dd command as bootable.
The box I built for the freeNAS box is untested, it has no drives in it, no harddrives, not cd, etc. I was going to just run it 100% off the USB stick.
I figured since this was untested I'd try it out on other computers around the house, and none of them see any variation on the theme as bootable.
Suggestions?
Thanks in advance....
cayenne
ps. I've tried this with other releases of the img...p1 and a couple BETA ones too...same story.