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I had no other computer at hand than the target box and a windows machine, but now I brought my Linux laptop from the office and tested this all again. Creating the USB sticks by following the steps from Getting started on Linux worked like a charm for both 16.7 and 17.1 images.

I can confirm the dd'ed sticks boot on the box I wanted without any BIOS configuration change (already installed it and it's working perfectly! :D), and also booted on my laptop, so they should most surely boot on any system.

So, for anyone else having issues, if you don't have access to a Linux box, maybe the way to go is to download a live Linux distro and boot it for creating the USB stick. I know this could be a pain, but it's the best bet right now. I strongly suggest going with that.

Now that I know it is not a BIOS setup problem, I will try to look for other Windows tool that could make a working USB stick and come back here if I have any further update.

For the record: what DIDN'T work before, was with rufus (version 2.11) and Win32DiskImager (version 0.9.5) running on Windows 10.

Cheers.

Hey, guys, any update on this?

I'm having this same issue; no success with either 16.7 or 17.1. The machine detects the USB device, but selecting it will just make the system reboot.

Tried writing the image with rufus and win32diskimager, also checked the checksum of the downloaded files, tested different USB sticks, changed some BIOS settings, cleared them with the board jumper, nothing seems to help.

pfSense boots perfectly for me as well.

I have no idea what else to try :(. Please let me know if there's something else I can do.