From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 22:00:40 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 A2EB41065674 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 22:00:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [199.48.134.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6474D8FC1E for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 22:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 40994 invoked by uid 0); 8 Oct 2011 18:00:39 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO schism.local) (gjb@76.124.49.145) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Oct 2011 18:00:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4E90C801.4060108@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:00:33 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block References: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> <4E90B4B1.7000009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigE466339F1796D73EB2C7AEE1" Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Thomas K." 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 22:00:40 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE466339F1796D73EB2C7AEE1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: >=20 >> On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>>> Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9= >>>> memstick >>>> images which could be at fault here? >>>> >>> >>> The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning. >> >> GPT should have no impact on booting from the memory stick, as far as = I >> am aware. >=20 > Memory stick should not be a problem, but some of the Lenovo notebooks > hate GPT, even with a PMBR: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D26304 > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D26759 >=20 Ugh, that's annoying. I'm half-tempted to note this in the new installer chapter, but I don't like the idea of such edge cases as these to effectively turn that page into a pseudo-HCL. Maybe this should be noted somewhere in the wiki... --=20 Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Documentation Project --------------enigE466339F1796D73EB2C7AEE1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJOkMgGAAoJEFJPDDeguUajhvYIALQn22dWdXMYtCWI0DKs4A1W weN0Is18LqolH4iHIb8l6U74/65y7WDkOqZOsl6IXb7Yo2D5USH+C9uS1+1pJ2tA tA4bfLdCvEy5XWY2MEfEpmdc06nxWKTaTWIZ1GSgVCakwvkh/MuSPcAGLo2gSdQD WCI7E8LzHpKlvEHK44NhXNGPjMZAVI8GpIRTiiitl3PD51yDDUgR1daD94MJG0Wp vEdtIKS8Jb6vdsG5Rypm6t0pUDQCwIzqmaIqPVoZ7sxOsi92esPR603jITT9QnER lJWDbtcyEzARpupWjjUxP9iViw1CRkWSVcX6XAswiOFnbUoM8IHLllMlPTp4KPM= =JOE+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigE466339F1796D73EB2C7AEE1--