cannot boot from usb stick, bios should be fine

[Artexanis]

This is the problem where it all started: http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?8028-recovering-data-from-broken-freenas-8

So, now i got my data back i needed to reïnstall. The usb stick was booting fine before the reïnstallation, so the BIOS settings should be ok.

Ik reïnstalled using this howto: http://anichin.com/blog/2012/05/installing-freenas-to-usb-stick-simpler-way/

When I try to start from de USB stick the last thing that appears on screen (and won't go away):

Verifying DMI pool data .... update success
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I'm stuck at this point... any help?

Thanks!

 

[Artexanis]

It seems like the boot sector of the usb stick is corrupted, how is this possible? I just wrote the image downloaded from FreeNAS, can it be corrupt? I tried 3 times.
I will now try to download an old version.

 

[Artexanis]

an old version won't fix the problem...

 

[paleoN]

It seems like the boot sector of the usb stick is corrupted, how is this possible? I just wrote the image downloaded from FreeNAS, can it be corrupt? I tried 3 times.

Throw out the USB stick and try a new one?

 

[Artexanis]

I used the same usb stick from the previous installation, it booted without any problem... I will try another stick, but I doubt that there will be any diffrence. I'll post back.

 

[Artexanis]

Forgot to post the result, after trying a new usb-stick the problem was solved. Strange, the same usb-stick had no problem at all booting the previous installation...