Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 04:05:55 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: install touching mbr Message-ID: <201004040405.55356.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100403205856.GA20454@icarus.home.lan> References: <20100403174812.59c40c99.matheus@eternamente.info> <20100403205856.GA20454@icarus.home.lan>
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On Saturday 03 April 2010 21:58:56 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:48:12PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > > I just installed a 8.0R amd64 from memstick. when asked, I said to > > leave mbr untouched. when I rebooted, it was freebsd bootloader that > > was on control. this options is not what I think it should, or there > > is really a issue here ? > > I can confirm this behaviour. Someone may have broken something when > tinkering around in that part of sysinstall (since the Standard vs. > BootMgr options were moved around compared to previous releases). I have a patch at http://reviews.freebsdish.org/r/15/ waiting to be committed. I believe the "None" option won't change the bootcode itself but will still mark the FreeBSD partition as active. -- Bruce Cran
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