From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 18:21:25 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 4B57C106564A for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:21:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAC78FC08 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 18:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadz30 with SMTP id z30so4433260qad.13 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:21:24 -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; bh=kLgEhK7wwWQ2ju2B48JE8bw1s0+QRrRnR2JoLfOBz1Y=; b=Z6JiUaMkG4ehpRE0oqzlq4uxTxoxlp2PBUO1oFTxj/bqKAv3bxX5nOQ9ekKjEFTpra 10wbWNOt6MJQwre41w35utzDX+/cw3YfZFMV+Z901l30J+ggvEq09I4zDKTCxXkWZLTL AvAkZGAwIt1P0X+7JFjLUZnR/Do5vi54sb2zo= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.213.10 with SMTP id gu10mr5861187qab.33.1318098084454; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.74.82 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:21:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> References: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 11:21:24 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: "Thomas K." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x 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: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:21:25 -0000 On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Thomas K. wrote: > Hello, > > a while ago I downloaded a then current FreeBSD 9 current memstick image and > wrote it to an USB pen drive. It didn't boot, but also showed no error. > It just did not appear in the list of devices to boot from, after pressing > F12 after POST on this box. > > I thought maybe the pen drive was bad or unbootable or something, and forgot > about it. This was for playing around with ZFS, so I went with FreeBSD 8.1 > back then. No problems. > > With FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 I tried again on another pen drive (known to work ok), > same result. It just does not appear in the list of devices to boot from > when pressing F12 after POST. > > Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick > images which could be at fault here? > > I didn't really investigate this issue any further than described, just being > curious. The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning. -Garrett