On 9/25/12 2:55 AM, Ib-Michael Martinsen wrote:
Thor Lancelot Simon writes: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 10:03:38AM +0200, Ib-Michael Martinsen wrote: > > > > The USB stick was populated with > > > > # dd if=NetBSD-6.0_RC1-i386.iso of=/dev/sd0d bs=4k > > This isn't really the right way to dd the data -- use the raw, not > the block device -- but if the result with other USB sticks is > something you can boot from, then yes, I'd be inclined to blame > the BIOS or the stick itself (though it's a little hard to see > how). I have also tried # dd if=NetBSD-6.0_RC1-i386.iso of=/dev/rsd0d bs=4k it made no difference, i.e. it is still impossible to boot from the USB-stick. So it seems I will have to use my 2GB and 8GB devices as boot devices. I can live with that.
you should try: # dd if=NetBSD-6.0_RC1-i386.iso of=/dev/sd0 bs=4k the letter after the number in sd0d is a partition/slice. in my case i did dd to the identifier itself in - this case sd0 - and it worked. but not the iso. that was always bypassed. the install img booted. but than it failed with stuff like: hd0a:[netbsd.gz|onetbsd.gz|netbsd.old.gz] No such file or directory. it's just been a really not very pleasant experience to try installing netbsd off a stick. nobody seems to know really what's going on with this img install. the instructions on line say you'd have to gunzip the image and dd it unzipped to the stick but then at boot the thing is looking for all those gz files... anyway... i'll try cd next. except i don't have a drive on my laptop anymore. it's just doesn't come with one. i would have stuck to freebsd except the xen support in netbsd 6.0 looks really attractive...
Kind regards Ib-Michael