Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 05:19:53 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: gvw@brainaid.oche.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 210R Install Feedback Message-ID: <199511280519.FAA07269@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <12510.817401152@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 26, 95 07:52:32 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > 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. The OS/2 bootmangler lives in a partition all to itself; I would guess you're changing the active partition to point to the FreeBSD partition (or the user is in the installer) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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