Did somebody boot old Sony Vaio laptop from FreeBSD memstick successfully?

[Bap]

Quoting Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>:

> Hello, All.
>
>  I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10-R (i386) on old Sony Vaio laptop (it is
> VGN-SZ340P, Merom generation of Core2, ~2007).
>
>  It allows to select "USB Hard drive" or "USB Optical Drive" as boot device,
> but it writes "No operating system" in both cases.
>
>   I've checked memstick and found, that it doesn't have MBR (it looks like
> /dev/da4a). I've added MBR, one slice, mbr bootcode, make this slice
> active, and dump memstick image to /dev/da4s1. My desktop boots from this
> memstick without problems, laptop says "No boot code".
>
>  Unfortunately, this Laptop has broken CD-ROM (and it looks like by DVD-RW
> drive in desktop is disgunctional too, I've tried to do something with it 4
> years ago).
>
>  Maybe, somebody has experience of booting such old Sony Vaio from FreeBSD
> memstick and here is some trick to do this?

Not sure about a Vaio, but I have many machines that will not boot  
from larger memory sticks.

Creating a 1G partion on a big stick and dd-ing onto that works for  
those machines.

HTH,
Bap

>
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> // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at FreeBSD.org>
>
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