Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

[Glen Barber]

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 | gjb at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Documentation Project

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