Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 01:09:45 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) To: wblock@wonkity.com, smithi@nimnet.asn.au Cc: dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img installer changes contents of USB flash drive Message-ID: <57f0c0c9.aH6Qfxjv0CNrmPcI%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20161001235138.N6806@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <mailman.4241.1475049553.1479.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <20160929014801.W6806@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1609290658280.7457@wonkity.com> <20161001235138.N6806@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > And then Perry Hutchinson (cc'd) is having the 'opposite' problem of > wanting to update the 10.3 i386 memstick he'd booted off with gpart > recover and gpart add for another partition, apparently successfully > according to gpart show, only to have the updates disappear on reboot? Actually, it's weirder than simply having _all_ changes to the GPT disappear on reboot: the disappearances are selective. Changes made to the GPT by 'gpart recover', and labels added to existing partitions on the memstick using 'gpart modify -l', survive reboots; but a new partition, created in the free space at the end of the memstick by 'gpart add', does not survive reboot (whether or not it is defined with a label). Setting the foot-shooting flag: # sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 does not help.
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