Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 26 September 2011 12:56, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I suspect that the thumb =A0drive is the issue, not FreeBSD.
>
> I've booted the drive successfully on an older Via C3 board.
>
> I'm now watching it boot successfully on a Gigabyte GA-8I915PC Duo board.
>
> I'm going to try dumping a Linux distro on this USB disk after I get
> PCBSD 9.0-BETA2 installed. That way I can try to eliminate the USB
> disk as being "funny".
> (Although it's quite possible the USB disk is doing other funny things.)
>
> I really do think that this BIOS of mine dislikes a GPT partition
> inside an MBR/DOS setup. If this is the case, I wonder how many other
> motherboard/BIOSes have this problem.

Adrian,

I may not have been entirely clear. The Android and the BIOS in my laptop s=
eem
to have an issue. The Thunderbolt does not seem to block boot on other syst=
ems,
just my T520.

--=20
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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