Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:07:37 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS Message-ID: <CAN6yY1vsB3s7j4tfJGHPT3TKF3D7QN4PTYiy7O8b0-Rfvjp%2BAA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmok75M4z_E_MQ7co7_RhFqzx8NiiPrQPU9-ruF9Tipdtwg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ-VmonaZW6Mm74XDKELC71V74onDwuB0Gi4i4c8rRQqs5x2pg@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1s-6-4aENo3bmDe7rqhJ_vYt7P8HD3aLg8GyupgqWQwvA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmok75M4z_E_MQ7co7_RhFqzx8NiiPrQPU9-ruF9Tipdtwg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I suspect that the thumb =A0drive is the issue, not FreeBSD. > > I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board. > > I'm now watching it boot successfully on a Gigabyte GA-8I915PC Duo board. > > I'm going to try dumping a Linux distro on this USB disk after I get > PCBSD 9.0-BETA2 installed. That way I can try to eliminate the USB > disk as being "funny". > (Although it's quite possible the USB disk is doing other funny things.) > > I really do think that this BIOS of mine dislikes a GPT partition > inside an MBR/DOS setup. If this is the case, I wonder how many other > motherboard/BIOSes have this problem. Adrian, I may not have been entirely clear. The Android and the BIOS in my laptop s= eem to have an issue. The Thunderbolt does not seem to block boot on other syst= ems, just my T520. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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