On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: > >> On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>>> Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 >>>> memstick >>>> images which could be at fault here? >>>> >>> >>> The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning. >> >> GPT should have no impact on booting from the memory stick, as far as I >> am aware. > > Memory stick should not be a problem, but some of the Lenovo notebooks > hate GPT, even with a PMBR: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26304 > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26759 >
Ugh, that's annoying. I'm half-tempted to note this in the new installer chapter, but I don't like the idea of such edge cases as these to effectively turn that page into a pseudo-HCL. Maybe this should be noted somewhere in the wiki... -- Glen Barber | g...@freebsd.org FreeBSD Documentation Project
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