Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

[Ed Maste]

On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1 at u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
> I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and
> FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
> BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized.

Can you download the image from
https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image.amd64.xz, uncompress and
write it to a USB stick and try on this system? This is a
MBR-partitioned dual-mode test image. It's not an installer - it
should just boot to a login prompt - but can be used to test this
scheme.