Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:10:23 -0400 From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 9.1-RC1 installer [was: FreeBSD 9.1-RC1 Available...] Message-ID: <CAKFCL4XAaN7rXjdux-XL-piuUWrdF0wZTuQCJcTs2-tJYAqQ=g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120831182617.GC2990@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <1345697446.84337.11.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20120831182617.GC2990@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>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
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