Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:30:02 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2484: 2.2-BETA install sometimes asks about boot mgr and sometimes doesn't Message-ID: <199701132330.PAA14947@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2484; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: fenner@parc.xerox.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/2484: 2.2-BETA install sometimes asks about boot mgr and sometimes doesn't Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:07:47 +0100 As fenner@parc.xerox.com wrote: > The first time I ran it I selected "Dangerously Dedicated" mode > and it definitely did not ask me what kind of boot manager I wanted. > The further times I didn't select anything, since the existing partition > information was correct, and it did ask me what kind of boot manager > I wanted. That's basically a known bug. Sysinstall decides whether to not present you the boot manager menu based on you previously explicitly selecting DD mode _during this run_ of the partition editor. It should do it based on an analysis of the disk structure, but that will require some restructuring of code. After all, it's ``dangerously'' dedicated mode. :-) There are still some dangers left as an exercise for the reader... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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