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

[Florian Ermisch]

The GPT message is nothing to worry about, that's normal with an image smaller than the underlying disk.
The image might trigger a bug in M$'s GPT parser though. 2004ish there was a small bug in the installer of Mandrake Linux rendering a otherwise fine disk unusable for Windows XP so I wouldn't be too surprised.

Regards, Florian

Am 14. November 2015 01:09:16 MEZ, schrieb Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com>:
> I've installed FreeBSD 10.2 from CD and successfully mounted this
> stick
> (/dev/da0p2).
> At least in FreeBSD it doesn't make any problem. Before I mounted it
> there
> was some messages on the consle. You can see the screenshot there:
> http://oi67.tinypic.com/351yiqd.jpg
> On the last line of that message it says that: "the secondary GPT
> header is
> not in the last LBA".
> 
> Then I repartitioned (with MBR schema) and reformatted it and voila it
> works properly on Windows as before FreeBSD. So there is no hardware
> problem with this stick, for sure.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Florian Ermisch <0xf10e at fsfe.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > 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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