Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

[Matt Thyer]

On Sep 2, 2011 7:59 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
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> On 09/01/11 17:23, Matt Thyer wrote:
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>> On Sep 2, 2011 5:25 AM, "Warren Block"<wblock at wonkity.com>  wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote:
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>>>> On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Matt Thyer wrote:
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>>>>> Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick
image
>>
>> ?
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>>> It seems wrong to have gptboot just ignore backup GPT data, but it could
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>> be an option.  Can it actually do something if the backup GPT differs, or
is
>> it testing for an error that can't be handled?
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>>>
>>> MBR didn't have backup data ("Luxury!  Pure luxury!"), and it did okay.
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>>
>> A custom hacked gptboot just for the memstick?
>>
>> Sorry.... Been working with Linux too much lately.
>>
>> Probably the real solution is to use MBR and have BSDinstall and the
install
>> kernel support UFS labels.  Space on the memstick is not an issue.
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>
> Both support that. The issue is makefs(8).
> -Nathan

During production of the memstick image?

So don't use makefs then.