On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: > On 10/7/11 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> In my experience, without kern.geom.debugflags=16, the MBR will not be >>> written to the memstick, leaving you with what would effectively be a >>> coaster in the not-so-distant past. >> >> Tried it just now with the 9.0-BETA3 memstick image. >> > > [...] > >> >> Followed by removing the memory stick without unmounting it to avoid >> overwriting part of the image. No obvious problems, but no, it's not >> polite. (I'm thinking "automounter" here.) >> > > Me not being one that uses hald or devd for USB, I'm certain the device > was not mounted when writing the memstick image. In the former case of > your test, is the USB stick bootable? I cleared the first 34 blocks and wrote it again to make sure, but yes.Received on Fri Oct 07 2011 - 19:10:35 UTC
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