Re: install/57840: None of the NetBSD 10 RC2 images or isos works on my Intel i7-3770 Dell Optiplex 7010

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

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From: Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/57840: None of the NetBSD 10 RC2 images or isos works on my Intel i7-3770 Dell Optiplex 7010
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:32:58 +0100

 Hi,
 
 I just tested it on exactly that type of machine, Dell Optiplex 7010
 with i7-3770 (to be precise, this is a Slim Tower variant, somewhat
 similar to the SFF variant but with 4 USB ports in the front *next to
 each other in a row*), and it worked for me:
 
   wget https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.0_RC2/images/NetBSD-10.0_RC2-amd64-install.img.gz
   gunzip NetBSD-10.0_RC2-amd64-install.img.gz
   dd if=NetBSD-10.0_RC2-amd64-install.img of=/dev/sdb bs=8M conv=sync
 
 I successfully booted to the installer with that in both BIOS and EFI
 mode.  The USB stick was a 32 GB Kingston DataTraveler and I used one
 of the two USB SS (USB 3.0) ports in the back.  All I did was go to
 the boot selector menu (F12 when the Dell logo comes up) and select
 USB there.
 
 Make sure you use the .img if you boot from USB.  The .iso can only be
 used to boot from an actual (physical or emulated) optical drive, but
 not from a USB thumb drive.
 
 Can you test another thumb drive to see if it's perhaps that?  And
 what error messages *exactly* are you seeing?
 
 
   Harold