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Yes I tried the VGA option as well..nada

Hell I even tried using VirtualBox and mount my HD or thumb drive as USB and tried to install it there but for whatever reason OPNSense will not detect any of my devices regardless of how I have it formatted.  yet all my other installations in VB (Windows, Ubuntu) can see the drives just fine.  I even did a fresh install of Ubuntu onto my HD connected as USB (i have an extra enclosure to use) and was able to install Ubuntu on it.

Why does this thing have to be so damn difficult...lol

It is 100% the image...I even re downloaded and there is definitely something in the image that does not play well.

I borrowed a friends Windows Laptop, put in the amd64 USB thumb drive and told the laptop to boot from USB and rebooted and it skipped clean over it like its not even there.

Even if I set the BIOS to 'Boot List Options - UEFI', it reboots and tells me no boot device found

Doesn't matter if its a USB 3.0 drive or 2.0, in a 3.0 or 2.0 slot - nothing works at all

Yet once his Windows machine is up and running, the drive shows just fine and I am able to access, read and write to it without issues...
I also plug the drive into my Mac and i can see it, read it and write it without problems.

its almost like the sudo dd command isn't making the drive bootable or something..

Yeah the BIOS is very rudimentary.  I will try a different USB stick thats 2.0 only and see if I can get that to work.

unfortunately no DVD drive in my home.  I only have a Mac Mini server which doesn't have a DVD drive.  Haven't actually needed one in so many years...lololol.

I appreciate the ideas and tips good sir!  I will let you know what I come up with to get it going...

**EDIT** - I attempted an old USB 2.0 thumb drive as well and I get the same result.  Damn thing is going to be the death of me.

That really sucks.  i certainly am not going to go out and purchase a dvd drive and disks just to install OPNSense

I even unplugged my internal hard drive to isolate any issues and I did get something different.  Now with my internal hard drive unplugged and the amd64 installed on the thumb drive i get the 'select proper boot device and reboot' status so for whatever reason it does not like the image on the thumb drive.

What would anyone recommend to format the USB thumb drive as?  Should In set it as FAT32, Ex-FAT, GUID, MBR? Just didn't know if its a format setting or something that I am missing.

Yes it does.  the 64 architecture was the first one I attempted.  i get the same result each time.  My thoughts are that trying to create the bootable USB stick from my Mac is what might be the issue but unfortunately I do not have any other type of system to try and create a bootable drive off of.

So I was curious if this got resolved for anyone?

So I have a Gigabyte GA-J1900N-D3V motherboard that sees the USB device when I put it in but does not boot for me to install.

On my Mac, After unmounting my USB device, i am running

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sudo dd if=OPNsense-16.7-OpenSSL-cdrom-i386.iso of=/dev/disk1 bs=64k in Terminal.  Everything runs successfully (takes about 5 mins to complete)

Once I plug it in and boot, I get either the default EFI Shell because the motherboard doesn't recognize the USB in the 2.0 ports or I get a Windows Boot Manager error talking about the device being inaccessible.

So I have tried formatting the USB drive as FAT32, Ex-FAT, GUID Partition, and MBR and I get the same errors (sometimes I will just get the blinking cursor of death).  I have used all the standard commands like diskutil umount /dev/disk1s1 or diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk1 and ran the command...all with the exact same results.

I have even tried the UNetBootin program (which took almost 5 hours for it to do my drive) and I get the same result.  Any ideas on how the hell I can get this thing running?