On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Rostislav Krasny <rosti....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 21:57:29 +1100, Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> > wrote: >> >> If FreeBSD GPT images (and Kindle readers) can trigger this, so could a >> theoretically unlimited combination of data on block 2 of USB media; >> modifying FreeBSD to fix a Windows bug should be out of the question. > > Not modifying FreeBSD and not fixing Windows bug but modifying the > FreeBSD installation media and working around the Windows bug to let > people install FreeBSD without disappointing at very beginning. Why > GPT is used in the memstick images at all? Why they can't be MBR > based? I think they can.
Can't boot UEFI off of MBR disks on all BIOSes. Warner _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
