Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:10:33 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> Subject: Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110071508010.3583@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8F6311.2060704@FreeBSD.org> References: <81477.1318015137@critter.freebsd.dk> <4E8F55CC.3060302@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110071352210.2450@wonkity.com> <4E8F6311.2060704@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: > On 10/7/11 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> In my experience, without kern.geom.debugflags=16, the MBR will not be >>> written to the memstick, leaving you with what would effectively be a >>> coaster in the not-so-distant past. >> >> Tried it just now with the 9.0-BETA3 memstick image. >> > > [...] > >> >> Followed by removing the memory stick without unmounting it to avoid >> overwriting part of the image. No obvious problems, but no, it's not >> polite. (I'm thinking "automounter" here.) >> > > Me not being one that uses hald or devd for USB, I'm certain the device > was not mounted when writing the memstick image. In the former case of > your test, is the USB stick bootable? I cleared the first 34 blocks and wrote it again to make sure, but yes.
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