Bug #3313
closed
Can't boot from my live USB at all. The kernel loading process hangs.
Added by rempas about 3 years ago.
Updated 10 months ago.
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!
Files
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.
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!
- Status changed from New to Resolved
I think it should be reported to Ventoy if this does not work....
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