Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:21:24 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: "Thomas K." <fwd@gothschlampen.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x Message-ID: <CAGH67wTeHVfb01Bc51%2Bd=XCct7cUBfobcg5zWM-Rn%2B3bdM43cg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> References: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com>
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On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Thomas K. <fwd@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 pressing > F12 after POST on this box. > > I thought maybe the pen drive was bad or unbootable or something, and forgot > about it. This was for playing around with ZFS, so I went with FreeBSD 8.1 > back then. No problems. > > With FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 I tried again on another pen drive (known to work ok), > same result. It just does not appear in the list of devices to boot from > when pressing F12 after POST. > > Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick > images which could be at fault here? > > I didn't really investigate this issue any further than described, just being > curious. The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning. -Garrett
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