Every method of installing on a thumb drive results in a series of ###'s

[Stuart Quimby]

Hi all,

I've been trying to install 9.2.1.4 to a usb thumb drive for the following box:
Dell PowerEdge T110
Xeon CPU X3430 @ 2.40GHz (2394.04-MHz K8-class CPU)
10 Gb ram

I've tried both the "Install from CD" and "Burning an Image" methods several times. First I used an older 4Gb thumb drive, then, on a guess that the thumb drive was bad, I tried a brand new 8Gb drive. I've burned the install files several times to both thumb drives on 3 different computers using both methods.

The CD install to thumb drive indicates that it's happy with the results, but when rebooting to the thumb drive, I get to the FreeBSD F1/F2 prompt and the screen immediately begins to fill with ####. Pressing either F1 or F2 does nothing to interrupt the progression of hashes...

The "Burning an Image" method yields the identical results.

Any suggestions?

 

[gpsguy]

The CD installation usually works better for most users.

Try booting the flash drive in another computer. the flash drive might be okay.

If it's in a USB 3.0 slot, try USB 2.0 instead. lastly search the forum for your server/model number. Others may have run into issues before and posted their solution.

BTW, 9.2.1.5 was released last night.


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