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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 2013 17:22:56 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jimmy <jimmy.kelley@charter.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 10-CURRENT i386 memstick snapshots broken?
Message-ID:  <20130607212256.GG38117@glenbarber.us>
In-Reply-To: <20130607205129.GA1103@jmobile.jimmy.net>
References:  <20130607205129.GA1103@jmobile.jimmy.net>

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On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 03:51:29PM -0500, Jimmy wrote:
> Greetings -
>=20
> I had originally started playing with the 10-CURRENT amd64 release
> a couple of months ago (no complaints here - keep up the good work!)
> and had used the memstick snapshot to set things up back then with
> no problems.
>=20
> Now I'd like to wipe everything and switch to the i386 version, but
> the memstick images (all of the last 4 or 5) seem to be broken.
> My machine sees that the USB stick is there, but won't boot off of
> it at all.  When I do 'fdisk' on /dev/da0 with the i386 stuff loaded,
> I get a invalid partition error, so on a hunch I decided to take a
> closer look at the memstick images using
>  dd if=3Dxxx-memstick bs=3D512 count=3D1 | hd
> The amd64 images look like what I would expect: some bootblock code
> with a partition table at the end and the "a5" type marker.  The i386
> image, however, is ALL '00'.  It would appear the whatever puts those
> memstick images together (src/release/i386/make-memstick.sh, perhaps?)
> is failing for some reason.
>=20
> Has anyone else tried the i386 memstick and having the same problem?
>=20

Hmm.  Thanks for the report.  I'll take a look at the logs for i386, but
they are generated the same way as the amd64, so in theory should not
have any noticable difference.

Glen


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