From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 20:38:11 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 7E30D1065670 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 20:38:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [199.48.134.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EE858FC0A for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 20:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 39534 invoked by uid 0); 8 Oct 2011 16:38:10 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO schism.local) (gjb@76.124.49.145) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Oct 2011 16:38:10 -0400 Message-ID: <4E90B4B1.7000009@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:38:09 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas K." References: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x 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: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 20:38:11 -0000 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 am aware. 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 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1024 count=1 Then re-write the memory stick per the instructions in the Handbook. Newly added to this section of the Handbook was a note to ensure the device is _not_ mounted (either manually, or automatically). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html#INSTALL-BOOT-MEDIA Please let us know if this helps. -- Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Documentation Project