Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:15:37 +0930 From: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS Message-ID: <CACM2%2B-5W3WAzjxjRiRQL2fd4Kh2gzJzARUiQaH41QaO1RGgsQQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E8218DB.7030507@freebsd.org> References: <CAJ-VmonaZW6Mm74XDKELC71V74onDwuB0Gi4i4c8rRQqs5x2pg@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1s-6-4aENo3bmDe7rqhJ_vYt7P8HD3aLg8GyupgqWQwvA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmok75M4z_E_MQ7co7_RhFqzx8NiiPrQPU9-ruF9Tipdtwg@mail.gmail.com> <CACM2%2B-6dQGaZQPsF8vgzj0N4duZ_5i7v_1Dv2Pavjd5EcmvRRw@mail.gmail.com> <4E8218DB.7030507@freebsd.org>
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On Sep 28, 2011 4:11 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 09/27/11 08:24, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, "Adrian Chadd"<adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman<kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I suspect that the thumb drive is the issue, not FreeBSD. >>> >>> >>> I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board. >>> >>> I'm now watching it boot successfully on a Gigabyte GA-8I915PC Duo board. >>> >>> I'm going to try dumping a Linux distro on this USB disk after I get >>> PCBSD 9.0-BETA2 installed. That way I can try to eliminate the USB >>> disk as being "funny". >>> (Although it's quite possible the USB disk is doing other funny things.) >>> >>> I really do think that this BIOS of mine dislikes a GPT partition >>> inside an MBR/DOS setup. If this is the case, I wonder how many other >>> motherboard/BIOSes have this problem. >>> >>> >>> >>> Adrian >> >> >> I believe this would be due to the improper GPT partition table on the >> FreeBSD memstick (as there is no backup partition table at the end of the >> volume). >> >> This was discussed earlier and now that makefs has patches for UFS label >> support there should be no need to continue to use GPT partitioning for the >> memstick image. >> >> The background is that bsdinstall relys on labels (a good thing) and GPT >> partition labels were being used but as there's no way to predict the size >> of your memstick, the resulting GPT partition table was not valid (for >> strict UEFI systems). >> >> The fix was to go back to traditional MS-DOS partitioning (MBR) but this >> couldn't be done until makefs supported UFS labels. Someone came up with >> patches so 9.0 should be able to have an MBR memstick and bsdinstall. >> >> I'm not sure how far this has progressed. > > > I don't believe these patches were ever committed. Could you provide a pointer to them? > -Nathan Yes, it was Andriy Gapon in this message: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=irt&id=4E60F480.6040706@FreeBSD.org
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