From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 21:45:39 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 AC5BB1065672; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:45:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt.thyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A358FC1F; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyj26 with SMTP id 26so6194197wyj.13 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:45:37 -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; bh=hUQ+F1by2fAqlq1hGWNLcEGa6u51ORXPDvMXgjQrtPw=; b=wcyXlMoSwV+KfY6m3/2jDdStpef5k1KXOjJDOwEfYWtscnGYNKx0bPRRqvz52z7RkQ VVYmYgXjOrQzP1OCrA6tza3R5ePIpek040l91dWAM6B5pstzsx6x6/3JQJJRITqGhLba +saCUolQ73Wt1ZyuCE7BUDHivxICdVopjCofE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.52.18 with SMTP id d18mr97351wec.107.1317159937640; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.11.9 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.11.9 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:45:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E8218DB.7030507@freebsd.org> References: <4E8218DB.7030507@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:15:37 +0930 Message-ID: From: Matt Thyer To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS 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: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:45:39 -0000 On Sep 28, 2011 4:11 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wrote: > > On 09/27/11 08:24, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, "Adrian Chadd" wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman 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