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Subject: Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal
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To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
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> On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have bad news and some good news.
> >
> > The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized as
> > a boot device. Same as with the 11.2-BETA2 images.
> 
> At least it's not a regression.
> 
> > The good news is that if I completely recreate the MBR, keeping the layout of
> > the partitions the same, then the USB stick is recognized.
> 
> Strange. Can you try an updated test image of mine
> (https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28.xz) or this
> week's -CURRENT snapshot?

What version(s) of the snapshots sould be tested?
disc1.iso?  dvd1.iso? memstick?

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org