Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 10:56:22 -0400
On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1_at_u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
>
> I have bad news and some good news.
>
> The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized as
> a boot device. Same as with the 11.2-BETA2 images.

At least it's not a regression.

> The good news is that if I completely recreate the MBR, keeping the layout of
> the partitions the same, then the USB stick is recognized.

Strange. Can you try an updated test image of mine
(https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28.xz) or this
week's -CURRENT snapshot?
Received on Wed May 30 2018 - 12:56:45 UTC

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