i386/66248: FreeBSD bootloader is confused by booting from USB flash, trashes main drives boot block

[David Bremner]

The following reply was made to PR i386/66248; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Bremner <bremner at unb.ca>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/66248: FreeBSD bootloader is confused by booting from USB
	flash, trashes main drives boot block
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 12:58:41 -0300

 follow up information:
 
 I don't know why I said booteasy. I meant whatever fdisk writes for
 "FreeBSD Bootloader".
 
 This is on a Thinkpad X40, attempting to boot frmo a generic (ACOM)
 usb flash adapter with a 128M Hama CF card.