trying to install FreeBSD from a pen drive. Failed with error 19

I am trying to install FreeBSD from a pen drive. But it returns an error on boot.

cd9660 :/dev/iso9660 error :/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL failed with error 19

and appears

mountroot>

command ?

List of GEOM managed disk devices: MSDOSFS/multiboot da0s1 da0 ada0

I've tried, but without success.

ufs:/dev/da0s1
ufs:/dev/da0
ufs:/dev/ada0
cd9660:/dev/da0s1
cd9660:/dev/da0
cd9660:/dev/ada0

Any ideas to solve this?

4 Answers

Some time ago I ran into the same problem. Luckily, I wrote down the solution.

At the loader prompt, enter:

 set debug.acpi.disabled="hostres" boot

This worked for me. Alternatively, I am told you can insert this line

 debug.acpi.disabled="hostres"

into the file /boot/loader.conf, but I never tried it.

In any case, you may look up this FreeBSD Manual page .

Try mounting the file system as read-only

eg. cd9660:/dev/da0 ro

worked for me.

Could be broken ISO downloaded or on the host. I have got same error 08-19-2015 FreeBSD 10.2 disc1 64bit, disc1 386 and even DVD

3 badly downloaded iso's would be rather odd? I think the problem is dev-side/host-side. Tried to load 10.2 on 3 differen machines(usb cdrom and ata cdrom) also on virtualbox(ata). On machine with usb cdrom it ends up with this error 19 on ata turns off the pc power 1 second after mount attempt. On Virtualbox crashes it.

I had succesfully installed FreeBSD 11 30-12-2015 on virtualbox. It's even simpler and faster install than PCBSD(TruOS).

So ran into the same problem, swapping to a different USB port appears to have "fixed" the problem. Initially, I had been trying with a USB3 socket.

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