Re: Thinkpad X220 - can'b boot from FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img

Anton Yuzhaninov <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:53:53 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2016-09-27 16:51, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote:
> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on Lenovo Thnkpad X220, but unfortunately
> it can't boot from USB stick with
> FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img (written using dd).
>
> Kernel is started but root fs can't be mounted:
> https://imgur.com/a/rIyNU

It was my fault. Using dd on Windows is not easy task.

Boot problem was fixed by writing image to
\\?\Device\Harddisk3\Partition0
instead
\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2

It seems to be memstick.img was written inside GPT partition. I don't 
know why kernel was even started from such USB drive.
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