On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Thomas K. <f...@gothschlampen.com> wrote: > Hello, > > a while ago I downloaded a then current FreeBSD 9 current memstick image and > wrote it to an USB pen drive. It didn't boot, but also showed no error. > It just did not appear in the list of devices to boot from, after pressing > F12 after POST on this box. > > I thought maybe the pen drive was bad or unbootable or something, and forgot > about it. This was for playing around with ZFS, so I went with FreeBSD 8.1 > back then. No problems. > > With FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 I tried again on another pen drive (known to work ok), > same result. It just does not appear in the list of devices to boot from > when pressing F12 after POST. > > Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick > images which could be at fault here? > > I didn't really investigate this issue any further than described, just being > curious.
The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning. -Garrett _______________________________________________ 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"
