Re: FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img kills every Windows it touch

2015-11-14 Thread Rostislav Krasny
There is no GPT parser in Windows XP because XP doesn't support it. Windows 7 supports it and dies differently. But why to use GPT in the installation stick in the first place? You don't use any advantage of GPT and on old hardware even can't use GPT during boot but its MBR compatibility. That's ob

Re: FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img kills every Windows it touch

2015-11-14 Thread Florian Ermisch
The GPT message is nothing to worry about, that's normal with an image smaller than the underlying disk. The image might trigger a bug in M$'s GPT parser though. 2004ish there was a small bug in the installer of Mandrake Linux rendering a otherwise fine disk unusable for Windows XP so I wouldn't

Re: FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img kills every Windows it touch

2015-11-13 Thread Rostislav Krasny
I've installed FreeBSD 10.2 from CD and successfully mounted this stick (/dev/da0p2). At least in FreeBSD it doesn't make any problem. Before I mounted it there was some messages on the consle. You can see the screenshot there: http://oi67.tinypic.com/351yiqd.jpg On the last line of that message it

Re: FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img kills every Windows it touch

2015-11-13 Thread Florian Ermisch
Hi Rostislav, did you verify it's the image and not the stick? I've seen a USB-headset and a Dell USB-kbd with integrated smartcard-reader pulling of such a stunt. Both were used on windows machines before and then suddenly started crashing them. Regards, Florian Am 13. November 2015 23:10:59