From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 19:10:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EA71065680 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:10:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from allbery.b@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qa0-f47.google.com (mail-qa0-f47.google.com [209.85.216.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7898FC1D for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:10:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadc11 with SMTP id c11so1389954qad.13 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:10:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=WIzMamLnOr46VFB6wH+9dUPKX47t7kw6SYETvPb7Y3s=; b=TgZGY62FsNdFIYLPdAXKWQrx/tJo3+1c7dCNv+fJHNbce3FiGJpOlsz1EWemQEpPpI 9oCv/cidxpmQ794TQ/ncSAgf+mGI5zFpemQ4tgP5tIWkb3PrJFjJR6WdzVsBvjEXHq9k Wo+i9SVk0x2Eh6uc1v6MYwZ7v4N6X1jLCmds5VqsuU7hzKERsYWhufsMbtXKLzRKFWgI lFkCzuzJeSL1uyDyx4JmQjmqwOmetdAHphx/Kn/NatAPotSHGZl7gJYrJSztPKz2CQW9 vRdJWx0GgcIygByTqcjpywfAfJLs811JwzNzYzLRYG6J8wF9Jl1ltBhYVuQ2av7rOmtb M9/w== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.189.83 with SMTP id dd19mr20173157qab.45.1346440223392; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:10:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.95.230 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:10:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120831182617.GC2990@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120831182617.GC2990@albert.catwhisker.org> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:10:23 -0400 Message-ID: From: Brandon Allbery To: David Wolfskill Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 9.1-RC1 installer [was: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:10:30 -0000 On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, David Wolfskill wrote: > While the exercise was ultimately successful, I needed to make use of > additional hardware (including a second FreeBSD machine -- my laptop) to > complete it. Had I been trying to install with just the target machine > and the USB drive (memstick), as far as I can tell, I would have ended > up with a brick. > I can confirm this, and I *did* end up with a brick (went back and did it again with the 9.0-R installer to get a working system). Worse, it managed to damage the EFI partition and I'm still getting fallout from that I think. -- brandon s allbery allbery.b@gmail.com wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms