From owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 00:16:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB58116A403 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:16:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mitchell@cloudynwuk.force9.co.uk) Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net (pih-relay05.plus.net [212.159.14.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0726443C9D for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:16:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mitchell@cloudynwuk.force9.co.uk) Received: from [81.174.211.254] (helo=hal) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1GpD85-0006sZ-JF for freebsd-qa@freebsd.org; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:16:50 +0000 Received: from 127.0.0.1 (AVG SMTP 7.5.430 [268.14.19/556]); Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:16:46 +0000 Message-ID: <000001c7134b$a82c50e0$fed3ae51@hal> From: "Frank Mitchell" To: Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:11:57 -0000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Subject: Bug 48341 MBR OverWrites X-BeenThere: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Quality Assurance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:16:52 -0000 Re: Problem 48341: sysinstall deletes mbr I just bought a new computer and installed NetBSD, followed by FreeBSD. The NetBSD Boot Selector has advantages, so I installed it and told sysinstall to Leave MBR Unaltered. And apparently it did. I encountered the MBR issue earlier this year, and John Baldwin supplied an alternative explanation: ====================================================== From: "John Baldwin" To: Cc: "Frank Mitchell" ; ; Subject: Re: bin_48341 & Dual-Booting Date: 22 March 2006 21:56 On Wednesday 22 March 2006 11:20, Frank Mitchell wrote: > Dear Matteo Riondato, > Being new to FreeBSD, I wanted to re-run sysinstall a few times without > disturbing my Windows Me boot set-up. So I chose the "Boot Manager = None" > Option, intending to leave the MBR untouched while I investigated the > possibility of booting from a Floppy. But I soon found my machine rebooted > into FreeBSD every time. I didn't see Windows Me again until I installed the > FreeBSD Boot Manager, which luckily dual-booted okay. (Windows Me gave > problems using Lilo). This is because the default boot manager windows installs just boots the 'active' slice, and sysinstall marked the FreeBSD slice as active. John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org ====================================================== Faictz Ce Que Vouldras: Frank Mitchell -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.14.19/556 - Release Date: 28/11/2006 15:22