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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x
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On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:

> On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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=26304
>>   http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26759
>>
>
> 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.

There are already a couple of notes about having to use MBR with XP and 
other older operating systems.  But instead of updating them, I'd rather 
see somebody with one of the affected systems contact somebody with 
influence at Lenovo and say "hey, the FreeBSD guys are talking about 
making your broken GPT support famous" followed quickly by a BIOS 
update.