Re: 10-CURRENT i386 memstick snapshots broken?

On 06/07/13 22:51, Jimmy wrote:
> Greetings -
>
> I had originally started playing with the 10-CURRENT amd64 release
> a couple of months ago (no complaints here - keep up the good work!)
> and had used the memstick snapshot to set things up back then with
> no problems.
>
> Now I'd like to wipe everything and switch to the i386 version, but
> the memstick images (all of the last 4 or 5) seem to be broken.
> My machine sees that the USB stick is there, but won't boot off of
> it at all.  When I do 'fdisk' on /dev/da0 with the i386 stuff loaded,
> I get a invalid partition error, so on a hunch I decided to take a
> closer look at the memstick images using
>   dd if=xxx-memstick bs=512 count=1 | hd
> The amd64 images look like what I would expect: some bootblock code
> with a partition table at the end and the "a5" type marker.  The i386
> image, however, is ALL '00'.  It would appear the whatever puts those
> memstick images together (src/release/i386/make-memstick.sh, perhaps?)
> is failing for some reason.
>
> Has anyone else tried the i386 memstick and having the same problem?
>
> Jimmy

Hi,

The memstick images does not contain an MBR. That's why some bioses 
won't boot them.

You can fix this by using:

fdisk -BI /dev/daX

dd if=xxx.img of=/dev/daXs1 count=65536

--HPS