From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 19:04:12 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD601065672 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout030.mac.com (asmtpout030.mac.com [17.148.16.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80B58FC14 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:04:12 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp030.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-20.01 64bit (built Nov 21 2010)) with ESMTPSA id <0LQU00KFTYAXYX20@asmtp030.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:04:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.4.6813,1.0.211,0.0.0000 definitions=2011-09-01_05:2011-09-01, 2011-09-01, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1012030000 definitions=main-1109010243 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:04:09 -0700 Message-id: References: To: Matt Thyer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:04:13 -0000 On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Matt Thyer wrote: > Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? They aren't exclusive. Anything which doesn't understand GPT should fall back to the 'protective' MBR kept inside the GPT format... Regards, -- -Chuck