On 9 October 2011 13:45, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote:
Mostly what I was getting at here was ensuring the first blocks of the
memory stick did not contain actual data. Though, I fear other forces
may be at play here with GPT...
There are.
We've lost this round; let's just throw MBR
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 9 October 2011 13:45, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote:
Mostly what I was getting at here was ensuring the first blocks of the
memory stick did not contain actual data. Though, I fear other forces
may be at play
One issue that has not come up on the emailing list is that dd, designed to
work with memsticks of various capacities, can not make the backup gpt at the
end of the memstick.
Partition is just big enough to hold the data, and I ran out of inodes at times
due to the installer writing to /tmp on
On 9 October 2011 19:54, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote:
One issue that has not come up on the emailing list is that dd, designed to
work with memsticks of various capacities, can not make the backup gpt at
the end of the memstick.
Partition is just big enough to hold the
On 9 October 2011 13:20, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 07:28:55PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote:
On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org
wrote:
On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote:
On 9 October 2011 19:10, Matt Thyer matt.th...@gmail.com wrote:
Failure to boot the FreeBSD 9.0-BETA{2|3} memstick images does not indicate
a problem with a PCs BIOS/UEFI as these images are not properly formatted.
Accepted.
If we were able to come up with examples of BIOS/UEFI that cannot
On 9 October 2011 21:44, Adrian Chadd adr...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 9 October 2011 19:10, Matt Thyer matt.th...@gmail.com wrote:
Failure to boot the FreeBSD 9.0-BETA{2|3} memstick images does not
indicate
a problem with a PCs BIOS/UEFI as these images are not properly
formatted.
Oh, I wasn't suggesting reverting bsdinstall before 9.0. That'll make
it a bit annoying to install on USB flash drives for some devices.
It may be worthwhile to do at a later date though. I do find myself
doing USB 9.0 installs just to test out the release without destroying
a physical disk.
But
Hello,
a while ago I downloaded a then current FreeBSD 9 current memstick image and
wrote it to an USB pen drive. It didn't boot, but also showed no error.
It just did not appear in the list of devices to boot from, after pressing
F12 after POST on this box.
I thought maybe the pen drive was bad
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote:
Hello,
a while ago I downloaded a then current FreeBSD 9 current memstick image and
wrote it to an USB pen drive. It didn't boot, but also showed no error.
It just did not appear in the list of devices to boot from, after
On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick
images which could be at fault here?
The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning.
GPT should have no impact on booting from the memory stick, as far as I
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick
images which could be at fault here?
The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning.
GPT should have no impact on
On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9
memstick
images which could be at fault here?
The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9
memstick
images which could be at fault here?
The new
On Oct 9, 2011 8:52 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8
On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote:
On Oct 9, 2011 8:52 AM, Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Are there any general
On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote:
I believe this is actually a case of the memstick image being an
improperly
formatted GPT as there is no backup partition table at the end of the
volume.
The only sensible answer is
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote:
On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote:
There is also the interesting question of actually installing to GPT on the
hard disk, which is the default in 9.0. Does this not work on some
On 9 October 2011 04:38, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote:
GPT should have no impact on booting from the memory stick, as far as I
am aware.
I've already emailed -current with an example where GPT+memstick == fail.
Some theories include that GPT/EFT on USB is what the BIOS expects
when doing
On 10/8/11 10:00 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
On 9 October 2011 04:38, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote:
GPT should have no impact on booting from the memory stick, as far as I
am aware.
I've already emailed -current with an example where GPT+memstick == fail.
Some theories include that
On 9 October 2011 10:15, Glen Barber g...@freebsd.org wrote:
Yep, and I also recall you bringing this up in IRC. Though, at that
time (well, up until a few hours ago), I wasn't aware of the Lenovo
issue Warren mentioned.
So, that said, I happily stand corrected. I am now aware of a few GPT
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 04:38:09PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
Thomas, can you please zero out the beginning of the 1024 bytes of your
memory stick, as follows (please take care to note the actual device for
your memory stick, and change '/dev/da0' below, as appropriate):
dd
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 07:28:55PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote:
On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote:
There is also the interesting question of actually installing to GPT on the
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Thomas K. f...@gothschlampen.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 07:28:55PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote:
On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote:
On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote:
There
On 10/8/11 10:41 PM, Thomas K. wrote:
On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 04:38:09PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote:
Thomas, can you please zero out the beginning of the 1024 bytes of your
memory stick, as follows (please take care to note the actual device for
your memory stick, and change '/dev/da0' below,
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