Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Thomas K. <fwd_at_gothschlampen.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a while ago I downloaded a then current FreeBSD 9 current memstick image and
> wrote it to an USB pen drive. It didn't boot, but also showed no error.
> It just did not appear in the list of devices to boot from, after pressing
> F12 after POST on this box.
>
> I thought maybe the pen drive was bad or unbootable or something, and forgot
> about it. This was for playing around with ZFS, so I went with FreeBSD 8.1
> back then. No problems.
>
> With FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 I tried again on another pen drive (known to work ok),
> same result. It just does not appear in the list of devices to boot from
> when pressing F12 after POST.
>
> Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick
> images which could be at fault here?
>
> I didn't really investigate this issue any further than described, just being
> curious.

The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning.
-Garrett