FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img broken?

[Trond Endrestøl]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 13:41-0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:

> I've tried several times to have systems boot off of
> FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
> 
> I've been quite successful with 10.0 through 10.2 boot sticks.
> I just downloaded FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img and did
> the same stick, same actions to burn it and boot it, and it worked fine.
> 
> I think the official RELEASE of 10.3 amd64 memstick image is broken?
> 
> What I get is
> 
> Error 1
> LBA 1339168 Invalid Format
> 
> and then a boot prompt, that fails to boot further.
> 
> I seem to have good copies.
> 
> tritium:~> shasum -a 512 FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
> 94f7708ac5b0e744c9dc40f19b45a2f6d0ac87f0ce0e3cd5c084a5d860ac16c3a3e167b04d4354faf9a70ef2836925518f072bc6b03147a1672ffb7790644b5f  FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img
> 
> which matches the SHA512 of the announcement
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.3R/announce.html
> 
> even so, I've tried downloading it from 3 mirrors and got all the same copy.
> 
> I've tried multiple systems, multiple sticks and multiple machines to
> burn it. For the life of me, I can not make 10.3 RELEASE amd64
> memstick boot, but I can for 10.2, 10.1 & 10.0 with no problems on any of
> the cobinations of any of the hardware I have.
> 
> Does anybody else have problems booting off this memory stick image?

You might need correct the primary and secondary GPT's on the memstick 
by running:

gpart recover da0 # or da1, etc

It's due to your memstick being larger than the image.

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