Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 12:53:43 -0700 From: Eric Hedstrom <ehedstrom@peregrine.com> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install impertinently overwrites boot Message-ID: <361E69C7.E80D8F20@peregrine.com>
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Christoph Kukulies wrote: >I installed 2.2.7 on my notebook from a floppy/DOS partition. >I explicitly hit the space bar so that the [*] appeared in the >selection 'leave bootsector untouched' and the damned beast >overwrote my bootinst multiboot which was already sitting there. Guess what? This just happened to me on Wednesday using a 2.2.6-RELEASE boot disk to do a net install of 2.2.7-RELEASE from ftp.freebsd.org, too. For what it's worth. Eric Hedstrom erich@compecon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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