How to make the usb stick boot

[screege]

Hi I tried the opnsense vmware image and it worked flawlessly, now I am trying to put in in a baremetal cpu but cannot simply make the usb boot, I have tried to boot in different computers, different usb sticks and none of the images work, I have downloaded the .iso the .img 32 and 64 bit, used win32disk imager, physdiskwrite, isotousb, roadkillsdiskimage rufus tells it cannot recognize the image or is not a bootable image, I have downloaded the files from other mirrors as well, and even copied the whole extracted iso and img to the usb stick and cannot make it boot, is there anything I am missing? All of the cpus I have tried and usb sticks can boot other programs like xpenology, linux distros without any problem

Can anyone please help?

[abraxxa]

For an USB stick you need the vga image and use e.g. dd on Linux or the Gnome Disks utility.

[screege]

Hi I´ve done that also and the usb stick will simply not boot

[Oxygen61]

Hey hey,

did u tried it the following way: https://opnsense.org/users/get-started/ ?

best regards
Oxy

[screege]

Yes I tried everything, linux, mac,pc,  rufus, win32diskimager, roadkills, iso to usb, tried the vga, cdrom, 32 and 64 bit versions and nothing makes it boot, it just copies the files, also I tried with several usb sticks, several brands and on different hardware, I am now using pfsense but wish to try opnsense.

[screege]

Finally I got it to work now the boot stays in:

masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000

I have tried to boot in 3 different pcs with different architectures

Can anyone help?