I'm upset about FreeBSD

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 21:57:29 +1100, Ian Smith <smithi at nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
>>
>> If FreeBSD GPT images (and Kindle readers) can trigger this, so could a
>> theoretically unlimited combination of data on block 2 of USB media;
>> modifying FreeBSD to fix a Windows bug should be out of the question.
>
> Not modifying FreeBSD and not fixing Windows bug but modifying the
> FreeBSD installation media and working around the Windows bug to let
> people install FreeBSD without disappointing at very beginning. Why
> GPT is used in the memstick images at all? Why they can't be MBR
> based? I think they can.

Can't boot UEFI off of MBR disks on all BIOSes.

Warner