Re: usb stick install

[Ib-Michael Martinsen <i.m.martinsen%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
 > On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:51:36PM -0400, kalin wrote:
 > > 
 > > 
 > > i tried every single option on 2 different machines, one of which
 > > has 5.1 installed.
 > > 
 > > the procedure is this:
 > > 
 > > 1. downloaded i386 iso and install img from netbsd.org ftp.
 > > 2. i. dd the iso to the stick with bs=1m. that one gives me this:
 > 
 > How, *exactly*?
 > 
 > Thor


For what it is worth, I have a similar problem:


The USB stick was populated with

# dd if=NetBSD-6.0_RC1-i386.iso of=/dev/sd0d bs=4k

I can mount and read the USB stick with

# mount -t cd9660 /dev/sd0a /mnt/sd0a

but I can not boot from it.

The USB stick is a Kingston DT Micro 16GB. From /var/log/messages:

Sep 22 09:18:41 asus /netbsd: 
Sep 22 09:18:41 asus /netbsd: umass0: Kingston DT Micro, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2
Sep 22 09:18:41 asus /netbsd: umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
Sep 22 09:18:41 asus /netbsd: scsibus1 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 lun per target
Sep 22 09:18:41 asus /netbsd: sd0 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <Kingston, DT 
Micro, PMAP> disk removable
Sep 22 09:18:43 asus /netbsd: sd0: 14996 MB, 3763 cyl, 255 head, 32 sec, 512 
bytes/sect x 30712320 sectors

I can boot from other USB sticks, e.g. this one:

Sep 22 09:40:19 asus /netbsd: 
Sep 22 09:40:19 asus /netbsd: umass1: Kingston DataTraveler 2.0, rev 2.00/1.00, 
addr 3
Sep 22 09:40:19 asus /netbsd: umass1: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
Sep 22 09:40:19 asus /netbsd: scsibus2 at umass1: 2 targets, 1 lun per target
Sep 22 09:40:19 asus /netbsd: sd1 at scsibus2 target 0 lun 0: <Kingston, 
DataTraveler 2.0, PMAP> disk removable
Sep 22 09:40:19 asus /netbsd: sd1: 7751 MB, 15502 cyl, 32 head, 32 sec, 512 
bytes/sect x 15874048 sectors

so I guess the problem is USB stick or BIOS related.
My BIOS is AMIBIOS ASUS V-P5G45 ACPI BIOS Revision 0405.

In the end I burned a CD and used that without any problems.

Kind regards
  Ib-Michael
-- 
Email: i.m.martinsen(at)gmail.com
Running NetBSD/i386 v5.1.2


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