memstick && Invalid partition table

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Tuesday, June 07, 2016 a las 09:15:03AM -0400, Allan Jude escribió:

> > If I use the fine memstick on some other laptop, in this case a Dell
> > Latitude E6330, it just says 'Invalid partition table!'
> > 
> > What could be wrong with it?
> > 
> > 	matthias
> > 
> 
> To fix the partition table to be the size of your memstick do:
> 
> gpart recover da0

this gave 'da0 recovering is not needed'

> 
> 
> If this does not work, try this (specific to some models of Dell
> Latitude and some HPs):
> 
> gpart set -a active da0

this worked, partition is now 'flag 80 (active)' and the stick boots
fine;

thanks for your help;

	matthias

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