Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:00:17 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I'm upset about FreeBSD Message-ID: <CALfReyeLSydZiVsG5KUFbmYh2s0cAdKEXmmfGmTz%2BQ06Oiypew@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20161017185215.97528d6cf6377058e4760785@yamagi.org> References: <CANt7McFNq%2BYSGc_9%2BH%2BUuTDO=df9Q29psRMVmiYR=q53DdBcRQ@mail.gmail.com> <20161017185215.97528d6cf6377058e4760785@yamagi.org>
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NOTE: you can only boot from gpt layout in uefi mode in windows On 17 October 2016 at 17:52, Yamagi Burmeister <lists@yamagi.org> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:44:14 +0300 > Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> wrote: > > > First of all I faced an old problem that I reported here a year ago: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/96598 > > Completely new USB flash drive flashed by the > > FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img file kills every Windows > > again. If I use the Rufus util to write the img file (using DD mode) > > the Windows dies immediately after the flashing. If I use the > > Win32DiskImager (suggested by the Handbook) it doesn't reinitialize > > the USB storage and Windows dies only if I remove and put that USB > > flash drive again or boot Windows when it is connected. Nothing was > > done to fix this nasty bug for a year. > > As was already said in the other answers this is a bug in Windows. > Particulary in the partition parser. partmgr.sys (running in kernel > mode) crashes while parsing the FreeBSD installation images GPT > setup. This may be a variant of the bug known as "Kindle is crashing > Win 10": > > http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_ > 10-performance/plugging-in-kindle-is-crashing-windows-10- > after/5db0d867-0822-4512-919e-3d7786353f95?page=1 > > That bug was patched on september 13 and I'm unable to reproduce the > crash on a fully patched Win 10 VM. But there's no patch for Win 7, > even with all patches applied my Win 7 VM is still crashing as soon > as the FreeBSD installation image is connected. > > I did some debugging and I'm pretty sure that the problem is not the > pmbr used for classic BIOS boot but the GPT itself. But my knowledge > of GPT and especially Windows internals is limit. So maybe someone > with more insight can look into this. > > Or even better: Complain to Microsoft. Even if the GPT is invalid it > should crash the kernel. > > Regards, > Yamagi > > -- > Homepage: www.yamagi.org > XMPP: yamagi@yamagi.org > GnuPG/GPG: 0xEFBCCBCB > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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