docs/147347: [patch][handbook] Request for comments on memstick install instructions

Glen Barber glen.j.barber at gmail.com
Tue Jul 20 13:31:23 UTC 2010


On 7/20/10 6:56 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
>
> Now, when I had done my USB install, I had a problem where the USB stick
> was not bootable until I zeroed the first 1k blocks. I did have previous
> data on the device, which perhaps was the problem. dd-ing the .img to
> the device wrote the information as expected; I just could not boot from
> it. I left this part in, as I personally ran into this, though I removed
> labeling and newfs-ing.
>

In addition to the above change, I missed a few </para> tags.  The 
attached patch has this fixed.

Regards,

-- 
Glen Barber
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