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Operating Systems BSD Bootable usb-stick, need help, sos Post 302969703 by hicksd8 on Saturday 26th of March 2016 07:30:41 AM

03-26-2016

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There's quite of lot of knowledge needed to create a bootable USB stick manually from the command line. I've forgotten more than I can remember about that because nowadays I always cheat.

Do you want to know how to do this manually as a learning exercise or do you just want to get it done anyway you can?

Do you have a Windows machine available to you?

I see the media you are starting with is an iso and you can't just dd an iso image to a USB stick and expect it to boot.

My preference would be to put the iso file on a Windows platform and then download (free) a copy of Rufus. Tell Rufus that it's an iso file as input and it will do the whole thing for you.

If you don't have a Windows box take a look at Unetbootin. That will do the same thing on unix/Linux.

Of course, the bios of your machine that you want to boot from USB must support that and have that function enabled but I guess you already know that.

It depends what you want/need to learn about this but, as I say, I just cheat. Other members on here might be able to tell you how to do it manually but I can't remember all the details.

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fpga_load

FPGA_LOAD(8)															      FPGA_LOAD(8)

NAME

       fpga_load - Xorcom Astribank (xpp) firmware tool

SYNOPSIS

       fpga_load [-g] [-r] [-v] -D {/proc/bus/usb|/dev/bus/usb}/BUS/DEV

       fpga_load [-g] [-v] -D {/proc/bus/usb|/dev/bus/usb}/BUS/DEV -I firmware.hex [-b dump.bin] [-i]

       fpga_load -h

DESCRIPTION

       fpga_load loads the FPGA firmware to the Xorcom Astribank device.  The syntax resembles that of fxload(8).

OPTIONS

       -b dump.bin
	      Before writing firmware, bump the processed binary file to dump.bin.

       -D DEVICE
	      Required.  The  device  to  read	from/write  to. On modern UDEV-based system this is usually /dev/bus/usb/bus_num/device_num, where
	      bus_num and device_num are the first two numbers in the output of lsusb(8).   On	older  systems	that  use  usbfs,  it  is  usually
	      /proc/bus/usb/bus_num/device_num.

       -r
	      Reset the Astribank and renumerate its USB connection to power on product ID.

       -g
	      Dump all eeprom data to standard output.

       -I fireware_file
	      The firmware file to write to the device.

       -i
	      Show information about the firmware file (valid only with -I option).  Example:

		   ./FPGA_1151.hex: Version=3297 Checksum=58270

	      In particular, the calculated checksum should match the output of sum(1) on the binary firmware file generated by the -b option.

       -v
	      Increase verbosity. May be used multiple times.

       -h
	      Displays usage message.

SEE ALSO

       fxload(8), lsusb(8)

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> .  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
       document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

								   16 April 2006						      FPGA_LOAD(8)