I'm upset about FreeBSD

[krad]

NOTE: you can only boot from gpt layout in uefi mode in windows

On 17 October 2016 at 17:52, Yamagi Burmeister <lists at yamagi.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 03:44:14 +0300
> Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > First of all I faced an old problem that I reported here a year ago:
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.stable/96598
> > Completely new USB flash drive flashed by the
> > FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-mini-memstick.img file kills every Windows
> > again. If I use the Rufus util to write the img file (using DD mode)
> > the Windows dies immediately after the flashing. If I use the
> > Win32DiskImager (suggested by the Handbook) it doesn't reinitialize
> > the USB storage and Windows dies only if I remove and put that USB
> > flash drive again or boot Windows when it is connected. Nothing was
> > done to fix this nasty bug for a year.
>
> As was already said in the other answers this is a bug in Windows.
> Particulary in the partition parser. partmgr.sys (running in kernel
> mode) crashes while parsing the FreeBSD installation images GPT
> setup. This may be a variant of the bug known as "Kindle is crashing
> Win 10":
>
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_
> 10-performance/plugging-in-kindle-is-crashing-windows-10-
> after/5db0d867-0822-4512-919e-3d7786353f95?page=1
>
> That bug was patched on september 13 and I'm unable to reproduce the
> crash on a fully patched Win 10 VM. But there's no patch for Win 7,
> even with all patches applied my Win 7 VM is still crashing as soon
> as the FreeBSD installation image is connected.
>
> I did some debugging and I'm pretty sure that the problem is not the
> pmbr used for classic BIOS boot but the GPT itself. But my knowledge
> of GPT and especially Windows internals is limit. So maybe someone
> with more insight can look into this.
>
> Or even better: Complain to Microsoft. Even if the GPT is invalid it
> should crash the kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Yamagi
>
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