From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 9 04:44:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069AB106566C; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 04:44:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83CBC8FC0A; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 04:44:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadz30 with SMTP id z30so4541806qad.13 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:44:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=RHzXaQIBcMFy0tzZ3dH9+qHoWniFWOQIem667a7lYps=; b=KCThHuJPutqRIvNrF24jwUc2srvkxhvFkDVsavaqns+ENYb8iMCufioq+h0BcWSK2p PK8FOPLHORyLpZ6HQpa8Nza+QR9CdKL6D7E53G/KCA3zyqKhI4uTOQIF5rZUaWGxflTp 6y5HiY6ohlOjcBJvsXS3qcD0/VciA6W91hKYc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.213.2 with SMTP id gu2mr2540108qab.85.1318135493771; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.74.82 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:44:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111009025047.GB13517@vs2.gothschlampen.com> References: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> <4E90B4B1.7000009@FreeBSD.org> <4E90C801.4060108@FreeBSD.org> <4E90EBF5.4090101@freebsd.org> <20111009025047.GB13517@vs2.gothschlampen.com> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 21:44:53 -0700 Message-ID: From: Garrett Cooper To: "Thomas K." Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Warren Block , Glen Barber , Matt Thyer , Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:44:56 -0000 On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Thomas K. wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 07:28:55PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wr= ote: >> >> >> >> On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >>> >> >> >> >There is also the interesting question of actually installing to GPT on= the hard disk, which is the default in 9.0. Does this not work on some sys= tems? If so, do we want to blacklist >> >them and use a different default partition scheme? Can we identify syst= ems that violate regular PC boot standards and reject GPT? Any data on any = of these points would be appreciated. >> >> >> >I don't think there have been any reports of failure to boot properly f= ormatted GPT yet. >> >> Lenovo T420S and T520, from the links above. =A0Install GPT on the >> hard drive, try to boot. >> >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D26304 >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D26759 >> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=3D9&t=3D98078 > > As I used parted from Linux to fix the alternate GPT, i.e. put it not at = the > end of the image data but on the end of the disk, and it still did not ap= pear > in the boot device list, the Acer AX3960 should probably be on the list > as well. > > Being a Core i7 2600k system maybe 6 months old, it's rather recent hardw= are, > but doesn't boot from the memstick image. MBR format would be a better idea considering that there are a number of catches to using GPT (as noted on the list), and we're probably not anywhere near producing 2TB+ images (yet :)..), and to quote Monty Python MBR: "I'm not dead yet!". If it comes to that day and age, we could provide a script or standalone command that would do the gpart foo to write out the partition table and just copy the image to the first partition, correct? Seems like more OSes should run into this issue producing GPT partitioned media than just us.. -Garrett