From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Wed Oct 19 18:21:05 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E17C19E3A for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:21:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rosti.bsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-lf0-x22d.google.com (mail-lf0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c07::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 63153CEE for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:21:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rosti.bsd@gmail.com) Received: by mail-lf0-x22d.google.com with SMTP id l131so34248271lfl.2 for ; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:21:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=Zago0aBfZCSRMcyDqTtwpf0rtPtY+TeSE86py4hZ9no=; b=sIRLxEi6IEFNzx7L1vaDirhx7RGa7RYYQ6pP47p6ZBqIR9lva2WlGS3WsbHcKv/RgT Hv+TYIkUeQLjwSoekreazbL9pr7XFwYmoXpHTvfRUVTuHJDeZelp/oZVYIYMQjpkXkT0 MW826hAVqoCo5zo9CErcHOlX9bJ8cN0LHn5g5IZtCGQo/oOjfku22vdmT2/zJkKHa+1H TsubS1fvR05unGt/kKLCCW3diPwcuG9FJ5tKyGGiK9DPMMVKfr43j4+MluPRIDlZnmTn rSX1uJiJt+kUORWAOJs2bRVDpxthY2A3Xsm4hlsjXrSOXioSWV/pHGdFGnIvVcXdoaWq EYig== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=Zago0aBfZCSRMcyDqTtwpf0rtPtY+TeSE86py4hZ9no=; b=bipbSaahxOFZGGSvTo4KJ4JpljZYuNDJPbxr6OpCKMncpTpI0Kx4UBoNMV9gsSVAH1 G6FolYx5Os0HRXPyz8PVOblZLP4UY5bmWlhKxFKJYoeemBvoqcuXQDmmESo/5TVEfGu3 qItsIAGpYmLn1Bm//l/gDjLVtEMoOS0z7yf71q09wysV9wWzmF44IsEklGgr2RieAeDY eV0hTTlfOx9GRHjEfQF0K93m+aB1Htl9UiY2JTdSjb8zC2d50/HfY+o6clEl1Uyvr9ra Aq2Re4QCk8ExBOZrQ9NFykuc6+WhGFug313NEikfszp8akD0d7jcaf08jGeOCLks3NPP mCHw== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RlsIzs8D1BwK8CZoywX5uedx91W52FoT26Exah5vvd1ZVg5R2WbB3b1QJPBVEb0zSPkE3sI/u2ybT4Znw== X-Received: by 10.28.228.5 with SMTP id b5mr5824934wmh.101.1476901261594; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:21:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.158.228 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:21:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Rostislav Krasny Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:21:00 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: I'm upset about FreeBSD To: freebsd-stable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:21:05 -0000 On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 21:57:29 +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > If FreeBSD GPT images (and Kindle readers) can trigger this, so could a > theoretically unlimited combination of data on block 2 of USB media; > modifying FreeBSD to fix a Windows bug should be out of the question. Not modifying FreeBSD and not fixing Windows bug but modifying the FreeBSD installation media and working around the Windows bug to let people install FreeBSD without disappointing at very beginning. Why GPT is used in the memstick images at all? Why they can't be MBR based? I think they can.