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Subject: Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?
From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>wrote:

> I tried to install 9.1-RC2 amd64 on two disks that previously had some
> version of Solaris installed (with grub as boot-manager).
> The installation would always be successful, but it would just boot to
> grub and then sit there.
>

RC1 wasn't very good at it either.

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