Procedure for 2.2 image burning to memstick

[mglaum]

Following the call to test 2.2 Beta, I

• retrieved the following image

• http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_stable/10/amd64/pfSense_HEAD/livecd_installer/pfSense-memstick-2.2-BETA-amd64-20140919-1449.img.gz

• checked the md5sum

• gunzipped it, and ran

• dd if=pfSense-memstick-2.2-BETA-amd64-20140919-1449.img of=/dev/sdb

• into a USB stick

When I try to boot off this memstick, however, nothing happens. Its like there's no bootloader.

What am I doing wrong?

[mglaum]

Tried it again a couple of times, ran into the same problem.

I decided to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=16k
and then re-dd the same image.

Worked this time.

Recommend people move along and don't spend time on this.