Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:41:31 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS Message-ID: <4E8218DB.7030507@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CACM2%2B-6dQGaZQPsF8vgzj0N4duZ_5i7v_1Dv2Pavjd5EcmvRRw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ-VmonaZW6Mm74XDKELC71V74onDwuB0Gi4i4c8rRQqs5x2pg@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1s-6-4aENo3bmDe7rqhJ_vYt7P8HD3aLg8GyupgqWQwvA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmok75M4z_E_MQ7co7_RhFqzx8NiiPrQPU9-ruF9Tipdtwg@mail.gmail.com> <CACM2%2B-6dQGaZQPsF8vgzj0N4duZ_5i7v_1Dv2Pavjd5EcmvRRw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/27/11 08:24, Matt Thyer wrote: > On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, "Adrian Chadd"<adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >> On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman<kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I suspect that the thumb drive is the issue, not FreeBSD. >> >> I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board. >> >> I'm now watching it boot successfully on a Gigabyte GA-8I915PC Duo board. >> >> I'm going to try dumping a Linux distro on this USB disk after I get >> PCBSD 9.0-BETA2 installed. That way I can try to eliminate the USB >> disk as being "funny". >> (Although it's quite possible the USB disk is doing other funny things.) >> >> I really do think that this BIOS of mine dislikes a GPT partition >> inside an MBR/DOS setup. If this is the case, I wonder how many other >> motherboard/BIOSes have this problem. >> >> >> >> Adrian > > I believe this would be due to the improper GPT partition table on the > FreeBSD memstick (as there is no backup partition table at the end of the > volume). > > This was discussed earlier and now that makefs has patches for UFS label > support there should be no need to continue to use GPT partitioning for the > memstick image. > > The background is that bsdinstall relys on labels (a good thing) and GPT > partition labels were being used but as there's no way to predict the size > of your memstick, the resulting GPT partition table was not valid (for > strict UEFI systems). > > The fix was to go back to traditional MS-DOS partitioning (MBR) but this > couldn't be done until makefs supported UFS labels. Someone came up with > patches so 9.0 should be able to have an MBR memstick and bsdinstall. > > I'm not sure how far this has progressed. I don't believe these patches were ever committed. Could you provide a pointer to them? -Nathan
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