From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 26 05:07:39 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 48314106564A; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:07:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA6A8FC0A; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywp17 with SMTP id 17so5116870ywp.13 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:07:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LHttWVObFLnNojKON9ZcKzd5lM7jFuZCe8+ozBFarGE=; b=HwtfR8sxvndBri1aiTASiY93fA+IAbd9tFrJX+EOYgfRPhJ1CkDTN3zJpzyhsYtSg7 nrcmaUH5jDqrsWvX9w51Muun33pyVLg8MeYNm7sbkPhfnOmowLGrk+mLqsIdWUkVOkWR xmlztZlnui876GT52SmvwdUiNTgwDsV0s0GqE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.82.131 with SMTP id b3mr7676909ibl.74.1317013657502; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.36.69 with HTTP; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:07:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:07:37 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS 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: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:07:39 -0000 On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman 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