From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 9 05:45:40 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 A7596106564A for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:45:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gjb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from glenbarber.us (onyx.glenbarber.us [199.48.134.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58D708FC0C for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 05:45:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9586 invoked by uid 0); 9 Oct 2011 01:45:39 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO schism.local) (gjb@76.124.49.145) by 0 with SMTP; 9 Oct 2011 01:45:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4E913502.5020307@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 01:45:38 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas K." References: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> <4E90B4B1.7000009@FreeBSD.org> <20111009024140.GA13517@vs2.gothschlampen.com> In-Reply-To: <20111009024140.GA13517@vs2.gothschlampen.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Garrett Cooper , 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 05:45:40 -0000 On 10/8/11 10:41 PM, Thomas K. wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2011 at 04:38:09PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > >> Thomas, can you please zero out the beginning of the 1024 bytes of your >> memory stick, as follows (please take care to note the actual device for >> your memory stick, and change '/dev/da0' below, as appropriate): >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1024 count=1 >> >> Then re-write the memory stick per the instructions in the Handbook. >> Newly added to this section of the Handbook was a note to ensure the >> device is _not_ mounted (either manually, or automatically). > > So you want me to clear the first 1K bytes, and then write the whole > image back to the pen drive, did I get this right? If so, I don't understand > what we're trying to archive here, maybe you could explain? > Mostly what I was getting at here was ensuring the first blocks of the memory stick did not contain "actual data." Though, I fear other forces may be at play here with GPT... -- Glen Barber | gjb@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Documentation Project