Bug #3313
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Can't boot from my live USB at all. The kernel loading process hangs.
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Description
Hello! I'm trying to install DargonFlyBSD on my hard drive (never installed in hardware before). And I'm facing some problems.
I have tried to create a bootable USB two ways. The first one is the classic "image burn" using "gnome-disks".
The second way and the one I'm more interested and would like to solve is using Ventoy (https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy).
In both cases, I tried to boot from the USB and when it will try to load the kernel like it normally does, it will hang at some point.
I tried with the latest stable version of DragonFlyBSD (6.2.1) and the latest version of Ventoy (1.0.65). I will provide an image with
the latest info before the kernel loading process hangs.
Thanks and if you need more info, let me know!
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Updated by daftaupe about 2 years ago
Hello,
I'm usually creating the bootable medium with the following command. Please make sure to use the .img file, not the iso if you are using a USB stick.
In the following line, /dev/yourusbstick is to be determined when you insert your USB stick, it can be usually determined by taking a look at the dmesg, probably sd_ on Linux and da_ on FreeBSD for example.
# dd if=dfly-x86_64-6.2.1_REL.img of=/dev/yourusbstick bs=1M
# sync
I did it again last night and ended it up with a working bootable medium. I'd say there's an issue with your method as /dev/mapper/ventoy appear in the log file you uploaded.
Updated by rempas almost 2 years ago
daftaupe wrote in #note-1:
Hello,
I'm usually creating the bootable medium with the following command. Please make sure to use the .img file, not the iso if you are using a USB stick.
In the following line, /dev/yourusbstick is to be determined when you insert your USB stick, it can be usually determined by taking a look at the dmesg, probably sd_ on Linux and da_ on FreeBSD for example.[...]
I did it again last night and ended it up with a working bootable medium. I'd say there's an issue with your method as /dev/mapper/ventoy appear in the log file you uploaded.
Thank you for the info! I wanted to relpy earlier but I had some problems with log-in to my account and now I remembered about this and I went back and fixed them.
So, thank you for the reply after all these months, I decided that I'll wait for DragonFlyBSD to work with Ventoy (and if it ever does) or with a similar program. Having to
burn then format and only be allowed to use one ISO at a time is a no-go for me in 2022. Thanks for your time and I hope you understand. Good luck with your work on
DragonFlyBSD and I hope you can attract more people as the project seems to be the most promising OS project out there!