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Date:      Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:08:33 +0100
From:      "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: iso2flash img
Message-ID:  <10030481899038@192.168.2.69>
In-Reply-To: <4F6C5E33.7000506@herveybayaustralia.com.au>
References:  <4F6C5E33.7000506@herveybayaustralia.com.au>

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Hi,

> Thats the whole point of this exercise - I can't, no cdrom: its a netbook.

I hoped that you had a USB attachable optical drive in reach for development.


> My disk worked in VBox, so I'm sure it is just a netbook thing. I
> also use that disk as my "install" disk, so I'm not sure exactly what
> partitions been on it now, it has been used for FreeBSD, PC-BSD, Linux
> distros, etc.

After copying the ISO image to the base device (/dev/da0 rather than
/dev/da0s1), it now carries the isohybrid MBR which marks a single DOS
partition and leaves the rest of the disk unclaimed. A partition editor
should be able to push the end of the partition to the next 1 MiB boundary,
without altering the partition content.

But as said, it is unlikely that this misalignement of the partition end
is the cause. The observable state of ISOLINUX rather points to a problem
between hardware, firmware, and the SYSLINUX programs. 


Have a nice day :)

Thomas




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