Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 10:19:55 +0000 From: Florian Ermisch <0xf10e@fsfe.org> To: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img kills every Windows it touch Message-ID: <6C6D9677-163E-4FB4-8618-1A7E5389C43B@fsfe.org> In-Reply-To: <CANt7McHsStRRyJfk%2B8J_7a4=KL0tkgB5nMAWk7iSy_5FNOBmWA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CANt7McFpq=C2Smimj5gwi--Awp3L1yG8pMOg5Varh=sdtpjSgw@mail.gmail.com> <17220EDB-4B1D-4397-963B-D2E1791F051B@fsfe.org> <CANt7McHsStRRyJfk%2B8J_7a4=KL0tkgB5nMAWk7iSy_5FNOBmWA@mail.gmail.com>
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The GPT message is nothing to worry about, that's normal with an image smaller than the underlying disk. The image might trigger a bug in M$'s GPT parser though. 2004ish there was a small bug in the installer of Mandrake Linux rendering a otherwise fine disk unusable for Windows XP so I wouldn't be too surprised. Regards, Florian Am 14. November 2015 01:09:16 MEZ, schrieb Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>: > I've installed FreeBSD 10.2 from CD and successfully mounted this > stick > (/dev/da0p2). > At least in FreeBSD it doesn't make any problem. Before I mounted it > there > was some messages on the consle. You can see the screenshot there: > http://oi67.tinypic.com/351yiqd.jpg > On the last line of that message it says that: "the secondary GPT > header is > not in the last LBA". > > Then I repartitioned (with MBR schema) and reformatted it and voila it > works properly on Windows as before FreeBSD. So there is no hardware > problem with this stick, for sure. > > > On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Florian Ermisch <0xf10e@fsfe.org> > wrote: > > > Hi Rostislav, > > > > did you verify it's the image and not the stick? > > I've seen a USB-headset and a Dell USB-kbd with integrated > > smartcard-reader pulling of such a stunt. Both were used on windows > > machines before and then suddenly started crashing them. > > > > Regards, Florian > > > > Am 13. November 2015 23:10:59 MEZ, schrieb Rostislav Krasny < > > rosti.bsd@gmail.com>: > > > Hi there, > > > > > > You might not belive me but it really does. I just flashed the > > > FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img installation image on a 2GB > > > disk on > > > key using Rufus 2.5. Rufus is a Windows program that support > flashing > > > img > > > files into USB disk on key in DD mode (like the dd(1) program). > Now > > > every > > > time I connect this disk on key into my old computer with Windows > XP > > > it > > > reboots instantly. First time it rebooted right after Rufus > finished > > > the > > > flashing. If I connect it into my Dell Latitude E7440 laptop with > > > Windows 7 > > > there is a BSOD. There was no such reboot with this disk on key > before > > > I > > > flashed it with the FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img > > > > > > What is going on here? What did you put into this image file? > > > > > > P.S. I've checked the MD5 hash of the image file and it's the same > to > > > the > > > official MD5 hash in www.freebsd.org/releases/10.2R/announce.html > As > > > far as > > > I remember I downloaded the image file from the official German > > > FreeBSD > > > mirror. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >
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