Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

[Glen Barber]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 08:29:57AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1 at u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have bad news and some good news.
> > >
> > > The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized as
> > > a boot device. Same as with the 11.2-BETA2 images.
> > 
> > At least it's not a regression.
> > 
> > > The good news is that if I completely recreate the MBR, keeping the layout of
> > > the partitions the same, then the USB stick is recognized.
> > 
> > Strange. Can you try an updated test image of mine
> > (https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28.xz) or this
> > week's -CURRENT snapshot?
> 
> What version(s) of the snapshots sould be tested?
> disc1.iso?  dvd1.iso? memstick?
> 

The *memstick.img for amd64, from this week.  (20180529 r334337)

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-snapshots/2018-May/000411.html

Glen

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