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From: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img broken?
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On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 08:48:34PM +0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 20:45+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 13:41-0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> > 
> > > I've tried several times to have systems boot off of
> > > FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
...
> > > Error 1
> > > LBA 1339168 Invalid Format
> > > 
> > > and then a boot prompt, that fails to boot further.

> > You might need correct the primary and secondary GPT's on the memstick 
> > by running:
> > 
> > gpart recover da0 # or da1, etc
> > 
> > It's due to your memstick being larger than the image.
> 
> No, I'm wrong. The advice above applies only to 
> FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-uefi-memstick.img.

Yep, doesn't seem to be needed..

tritium:> gpart recover da2
da2 recovering is not needed