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General Discussion / Installation problem
« on: November 04, 2016, 03:09:53 am »
First, this is not a problem with the software. But I'm hoping somebody here can help me figure out what's going wrong. I wrote the image to a USB stick as per the instructions in the documentation. The USB stick functions perfectly on this laptop. But when I try to install OPNsense to the box I'm building for it the system will not boot from the USB. This is confusing because the distro on the box now is one I just installed from the same USB stick earlier today. So I know the BIOS can boot from USB. And, like I said above, OPNsense boots up just fine when I plug the stick into this computer.
And now the OS I installed earlier won't boot cleanly either.
When I type "usb" at the GRUB prompt it returns a blank line indicating there are no USB devices connected. I don't know how to fix this at this level. It's also odd that it doesn't show any USB devices but it accepts input from the USB keyboard.
So how do I get the box to recognize the USB stick?
And now the OS I installed earlier won't boot cleanly either.
When I type "usb" at the GRUB prompt it returns a blank line indicating there are no USB devices connected. I don't know how to fix this at this level. It's also odd that it doesn't show any USB devices but it accepts input from the USB keyboard.
So how do I get the box to recognize the USB stick?