Solved FreeBSD_Install failed with error 19. Dell Latitude E7450 with GhostBSD.

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mikethe1wheelnut

Apparently I might have to update my bios. The purpose of this thread is to attempt to confirm that, and collect any other advice the community might have to offer.

The computer in question is a Dell Latitude E7450, and currently has GhostBSD installed. I just downloaded the latest amd64 image, checked the hash, put it on my ventoy. That's what I'm trying to install. I have previously tried installing OpenBSD, that doesn't work either, not that it was ever, strictly speaking, supposed to.

I have no idea how to update my bios. I can, and will, google with the best of them, (..obvious place to start..), but if somebody here just "knows" the answer and could possibly save me hours worth of research, (maybe my bios is fine?) it seems worth asking the question. GhostBSD -is- based on FreeBSD..

-> oh, and I'm booting with UEFI. Apparently FreeBSD no longer works with legacy.. (tried it months ago, didn't work)

..the computer is currently at the "mountroot>" console.. I can type commands, etc, apparently.

..this actually looks closer to my problem..

More info: "Mounting from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeBSD_Install failed with error 19" ..plenty of other output, I can enter it if necessary..
 
mikethe1wheelnut said:
I just downloaded the latest amd64 image, checked the hash, put it on my ventoy. That's what I'm trying to install.
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Try without ventoy.
mikethe1wheelnut said:
maybe my bios is fine
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Certainly possible. The post you referred to is almost a decade old. But FreeBSD and Ventoy is still somewhat dodgy combination as far as I know. So try writing the FreeBSD installer to a memory stick directly, and boot that first before you go for the firmware update.
 
SirDice said:
Try without ventoy.

Certainly possible. The post you referred to is almost a decade old. But FreeBSD and Ventoy is still somewhat dodgy combination as far as I know. So try writing the FreeBSD installer to a memory stick directly, and boot that first before you go for the firmware update.
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"But FreeBSD and Ventoy is still somewhat dodgy combination as far as I know." -awesome. will do. Thanks!
 
dd, as per instructions, fails. Ventoy is still on the disk. This is after I formatted it with the gui tools of ubuntu, telling it to erase everything. On boot, two usb's are listed. The first is ventoy, the second gives a bunch of things including: "Failed to find bootable partition". Going to re-try with gparted. If that doesn't work, fresh usb..

gparted failed. big mess. didn't do my research properly, obviously. properly "formatting" a usb for this purpose.. will go on the "to-do" list. fresh usb worked. :)
 
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