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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 1995 07:52:32 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        gvw@brainaid.oche.de (Guido von Walter)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 210R Install Feedback 
Message-ID:  <12510.817401152@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 26 Nov 1995 14:09:24 %2B0100." <m0tJgph-000978C@brainaid.oche.de> 

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> 1. I boot my 2.0.5R system and OS/2 from the OS/2 Bootmanager. I installed 
>    210R to sd2 and told sysinstall not to touch the bootblock.
>    Afterwards the bootmanager was deactivated, and the system booted the
>    old 205R partition by default. Hmm.

This seems to be a problem, but neither Poul-Henning and I can figure
out why.  I literally don't write to a disk that's not selected,
yet people are telling me the boot blocks are getting touched for their
first drive anyway.  I can't figure it out.

> 2. The sd devices: The installation made the /dev entries for the new sd2
>    devices (sd2s1e ...) and for the old partitions on sd0 (sd0s3e from the
>    205r), but did not notice another FreeBSD partition on sd1. I made these
>    entries with MAKEDEV later, no big deal, but possibly a problem for others

Hmmmm.  If this is easy to fix, I will.




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