Can't boot from thumb drive

[Paul52]

I'm trying to install FreeNAS 9.2.1.8 on a system with the specs below. I am installing from a CD and can't get it to work on a thumb drive. I have installed it on a hard disk and it works the first time. It also takes more than 10 minutes to install to thumb drive. Here is the error that I get:

error 1 lba 181344
error 1 lba 181344
No /boot/loader

FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
error 1 lba 181344
No /boot/kernel/kernel

FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:

I tried it on another thumb drive and I get the following:

NVIDIA Boot Agent 249.0542
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 NVIDIA Corporation
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 NVIDIA Corporation

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 1D 7D D1 4E 33 GUID:30303144-3744-4431-3345-3331FFFFFFFF
DHCP.......

PXE-M0F: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent.

NVIDIA Boot Agent 249.0542
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 NVIDIA Corporation
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 NVIDIA Corporation

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 1D 7D D1 4E 33 GUID:30303144-3744-4431-3345-3331FFFFFFFF
DHCP.......


System Specs:
CPU: Intel Core2Duo E6750
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H (Updated bios to V9)
Ram: 2GB
Thumb drive: sandisk cruzer fit 8GB

 

[Ericloewe]

Woefully inadequate hardware - nothing else is to be expected. nForce chipsets are pure evil and have no business in anything remotely critical, much less a server.

I recommend you read the hardware sticky.
There's not much hope for your current setup, and even if you get it to work, it's barely enough to use UFS - which is effectively deprecated and unusable in FreeNAS 9.3.