FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img kills every Windows it touch

[Florian Ermisch]

Hi Rostislav,

did you verify it's the image and not the stick?
I've seen a USB-headset and a Dell USB-kbd with integrated smartcard-reader pulling of such a stunt. Both were used on windows machines before and then suddenly started crashing them.

Regards, Florian

Am 13. November 2015 23:10:59 MEZ, schrieb Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com>:
> Hi there,
> 
> You might not belive me but it really does. I just flashed the
> FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img installation image on a 2GB
> disk on
> key using Rufus 2.5. Rufus is a Windows program that support flashing
> img
> files into USB disk on key in DD mode (like the dd(1) program). Now
> every
> time I connect this disk on key into my old computer with Windows XP
> it
> reboots instantly. First time it rebooted right after Rufus finished
> the
> flashing. If I connect it into my Dell Latitude E7440 laptop with
> Windows 7
> there is a BSOD. There was no such reboot with this disk on key before
> I
> flashed it with the FreeBSD-10.2-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img
> 
> What is going on here? What did you put into this image file?
> 
> P.S. I've checked the MD5 hash of the image file and it's the same to
> the
> official MD5 hash in www.freebsd.org/releases/10.2R/announce.html As
> far as
> I remember I downloaded the image file from the official German
> FreeBSD
> mirror.
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