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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:32:08 GMT
From: Miguel de Val Borro <miguel.deval@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img does not boot
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>Number:         164089
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img does not boot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 13 16:40:02 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Miguel de Val Borro
>Release:        9.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
Linux poincare 3.0.6-gentoo #3 SMP Sat Dec 10 20:26:52 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8500 @ 3.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

>Description:
I have written the 9.0-RELEASE memstick image to a USB device on a Linux machine using these commands:

# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
# dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/sdb bs=64k

When I try to boot from the USB memory stick I get a blank screen.
>How-To-Repeat:
The problem is reproducible using other arguments to the dd command such as 'bs=10240 conv=sync' and 'bs=4096'
>Fix:


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