On Sep 28, 2011 4:11 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhiteh...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 09/27/11 08:24, Matt Thyer wrote: >> >> On Sep 26, 2011 2:33 PM, "Adrian Chadd"<adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman<kob6...@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=4e60f480.6040...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
