From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 9 06:17:15 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 DB3051065673; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 06:17:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE978FC0C; Sun, 9 Oct 2011 06:17:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaby12 with SMTP id y12so1134261iab.13 for ; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:17:14 -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=7NUb46BMT9j4KePRLs9DBedIaVXFGu9e+sUWyX1omo4=; b=OxwBIoIG5tS1IaWawc2Xdd3oDOBt6sqHdeqDGHJ6nK+i+wyAqTivpNNoQGKG38VUau WcXL7ex8ae8mQ7kFz/jNVyTIX5WLMS5yQBaD3rYEXWzpDsNrmWQW7MPJrAZGMf9PRBDx 83ekN5QU2zSyrLtyf5j2IaJvHVdPmZ3/7pfic= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.45.9 with SMTP id c9mr6050618ibf.73.1318141034858; Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.36.69 with HTTP; Sat, 8 Oct 2011 23:17:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20111008155252.GA24223.edited@vs2.gothschlampen.com> <4E90B4B1.7000009@FreeBSD.org> <20111009024140.GA13517@vs2.gothschlampen.com> <4E913502.5020307@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 23:17:14 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Adrian Chadd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Garrett Cooper , Glen Barber , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Thomas K." 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 06:17:15 -0000 On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 9 October 2011 13:45, Glen Barber wrote: > >> Mostly what I was getting at here was ensuring the first blocks of the >> memory stick did not contain "actual data." =A0Though, I fear other forc= es >> may be at play here with GPT... >> > > There are. > > We've lost this round; let's just throw MBR back onto the memstick > images and then focus these boot related issues to fixing the > bootloader. :) Another data point. It appears USB related. I have built a GPT system on a SATA drive on a Lenovo T520. Works just fine. Always has. I copied the system onto a USB drive of the same size, not with dd of the disk, but by using gpart(8) to set up the disk including pmbr and gptmbr, just like I did on the SATA drive and then used dd to copy y\the partitions. I did this just to avoid issues with the"final block" as, while both drives are 750GB, they are different models Well, the Lenovo refuses to boot from the USB drive. It does not show up in the list of possible boot devices. I looks like this is an issue with GPT on USB devices, though I could well be missing another explanation. --=20 R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com