Booting from SD card on 32-bit PC fails

[Amar]

Hello,

I installed FreeNAS on a 4GB SD card and tried to boot from the card. However, I get the following error at boot-up:

FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot: No /boot/kernel/kernel

Can anyone help me figure out what's wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks!

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah.. because you are supposed to use a USB stick. SD cards are NOT USB sticks, even when used in a USB converter.

 

[Amar]

I wrote SD card by mistake - it is actually a new 8 GB USB stick I bought when the SD card didn't work.

Anyway, the installation instructions say CF cards are ok so I would have thought SD would be ok as well, as this article claims:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/set-freenas-server-access-files/

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah... CF cards internally work alot different than SD cards. CF provide decent throughput while SD cards are more like bursts.

 

[Amar]

Again, the error I am seeing is on a USB drive. So can we please focus on that.

 

[gpsguy]

Instead of following some random instructions, download the official guide, a link to it is on the same page as the downloads.

Try reinstalling it again. You may need to run Active@ KillDisk first.

 

[Knowltey]

SD Cards are a very different beast from USB drives. Install on a USB drive and see if that works better for you.

 

[Amar]

Ok, I am going to post again because the initial mistake on my part indicating I was using an SD card (it is actually USB) is generating a lot of responses unrelated to the problem I actually have. Sorry for causing confusion!

 

[Knowltey]

Ok, I am going to post again because the initial mistake on my part indicating I was using an SD card (it is actually USB) is generating a lot of responses unrelated to the problem I actually have. Sorry for causing confusion!

Even if it's an SD Card through an SD to USB adapter it's still an SD card in terms of how it operates.

 

[Amar]

Again, it is NOT an SD card; it is a regular USB stick. I made a mistake in my original post.

 

[gpsguy]

My reply to you was based on you using a USB flash drive.



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[Knowltey]

Also, go ahead and give the optical media installation method a shot. I have run into a computer in the past that absolutely would not play with a drive that was imaged using the .xz file for whatever reason, but was perfectly fine if I used the machine itself and the DVD installer to install FreeNAS to the USB media. Perhaps your machine for whatever reason could be doing this same behaviour.