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16.7 Legacy Series / Unable to create bootable USB media
« on: January 16, 2017, 01:25:02 am »
I downloaded OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2, then ran
bunzip2 -d OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img.bz2
then
sudo dd if=OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
it writes successfully to the USB thumb drive, but it's not recognized as bootable media when I plug it into my test PC.
I used bs=1M because another thread with similar issue said changing that value from 16k could help.
My environment: Windows 10 Pro, with Ubuntu 16.04.1 running on VirtualBox 5.1.10
If I do the same with ipfire-2.19.x86_64-full-core102.iso it works fine and my test PC boots into the ipfire installer.
From what I think I learned, it seems the ipfire ISO is "hacked" to work with USBs, but the OPNsense ISO is not (only works with CD/DVDs) so I'm only trying to use your IMG files.
I've also tried using different USB media but with same bad result.
I also tried using rufus-2.11 but with same bad result.
I'm new to FreeBSD and new to OPNsense, and I'm trying to migrate from ipfire to OPNsense.
I've attached two images, the first one (dd1.png) show the fdisk info before the dd script and the result of the dd script. The second image (dd2.png) show the fdisk info after successfully (?) writing to the USB.
Any help with this would be appreciated
My fall-back option is to use the ISO image and burn a DVD, but I'm trying to avoid that.
bunzip2 -d OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img.bz2
then
sudo dd if=OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-vga-i386.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
it writes successfully to the USB thumb drive, but it's not recognized as bootable media when I plug it into my test PC.
I used bs=1M because another thread with similar issue said changing that value from 16k could help.
My environment: Windows 10 Pro, with Ubuntu 16.04.1 running on VirtualBox 5.1.10
If I do the same with ipfire-2.19.x86_64-full-core102.iso it works fine and my test PC boots into the ipfire installer.
From what I think I learned, it seems the ipfire ISO is "hacked" to work with USBs, but the OPNsense ISO is not (only works with CD/DVDs) so I'm only trying to use your IMG files.
I've also tried using different USB media but with same bad result.
I also tried using rufus-2.11 but with same bad result.
I'm new to FreeBSD and new to OPNsense, and I'm trying to migrate from ipfire to OPNsense.
I've attached two images, the first one (dd1.png) show the fdisk info before the dd script and the result of the dd script. The second image (dd2.png) show the fdisk info after successfully (?) writing to the USB.
Any help with this would be appreciated
My fall-back option is to use the ISO image and burn a DVD, but I'm trying to avoid that.