misc/178311: USB boot image booting fault

HPS hselasky at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 3 06:30:00 UTC 2013


>Number:         178311
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       USB boot image booting fault
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 03 06:30:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     HPS
>Release:        FreeBSD-9
>Organization:
Bitfrost A/S
>Environment:
>Description:
Hi,

I tried the USB boot image for 9.x on some HP workstations, and they
didn´t boot because the MBR was missing. Other PC don´t check the MBR. Can
you make sure that an MBR and not GPT is pre-pended to the USB bootable
X86/64 images in the future?

--HPS
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