Cant boot from USB

[Uwillparish]

Hi guys,

 

I doubt anyone can help me with this, but i thought i would roll my dice and see what happens.

So heres the situation,

 

In a few months, im going to be setting up a freenas system out of a old computer that i have lying around, Specs being a amd athlon 64 x2 4200+ and a asus m2n68-la, with 1tb of storage(2x WD red 1tb running in raid 1, for redundancy) so ive been testing it on a old drive.

 

The problem,

 

Since freenas uses the entire drive its installed on, and i have only 1 drive to test with, i planned to use a USB for booting, However, Once the OS is installed on the drive, and i go to reboot, The computer freezes, and wont respond to any key presses, to try to get to setup or boot menu.

 

Any suggestions?

[Analog]

USB flash drives are not designed to run an OS and your issue can be cause by a lot of things. For one, if you have plugged it in a USB 3 header, those don't usually get recognized until you are in the OS. An other thing could be that your flash drive is not big enough to have the entire OS installed on it. There are numerous problems that can arise from a thing like that. It would be much easier to just find a used drive on the cheap with 320GB of space for your OS and other stuff and call it a day.  

[Uwillparish]

USB flash drives are not designed to run an OS and your issue can be cause by a lot of things. For one, if you have plugged it in a USB 3 header, those don't usually get recognized until you are in the OS. An other thing could be that your flash drive is not big enough to have the entire OS installed on it. There are numerous problems that can arise from a thing like that. It would be much easier to just find a used drive on the cheap with 320GB of space for your OS and other stuff and call it a day.  

"USB flash drives are not designed to run an OS and your issue can be cause by a lot of things" From what i have read, other people have used it and it has worked fine

" For one, if you have plugged it in a USB 3 header, those don't usually get recognized until you are in the OS" You must not have looked at the mobo, Obviously no usb 3 here

"An other thing could be that your flash drive is not big enough to have the entire OS installed on it" I used a 8gb flash drive, and also, freenas doesnt use alot of space just for the OS

"There are numerous problems that can arise from a thing like that. It would be much easier to just find a used drive on the cheap with 320GB of space for your OS and other stuff and call it a day." i dont trust used items 

[Uwillparish]

any other ideas?

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Might be due to the specific type of USB stick you are using.  I have the same problem whenever I try to boot from any of my EMTEC sticks, but if I do the exact same install on one of my TDK or SanDisk sticks it boots fine. 

[Uwillparish]

Might be due to the specific type of USB stick you are using.  I have the same problem whenever I try to boot from any of my EMTEC sticks, but if I do the exact same install on one of my TDK or SanDisk sticks it boots fine. 

i've tryed using a 32gb sandisk flash drive, a 16gb pny flash drive, and a dane-elec 8gb flash 

[ChromeYeti]

What are you formating the USB stick to?