From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 12 12:53:32 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3D3DCFC for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.sdf.org [192.94.73.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C09E71F80 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:53:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:bennett@sdf.lonestar.org [192.94.73.15]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s0CCrTFT012223 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:53:30 GMT Received: (from bennett@localhost) by sdf.org (8.14.7/8.12.8/Submit) id s0CCrTe9015766; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 06:53:29 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <201401121253.s0CCrTe9015766@sdf.org> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 06:53:29 -0600 To: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com Subject: Re: 9.2-RELEASE kernel ignores MBR on boot disk References: <201401120855.s0C8tb5I022973@sdf.org> <20140112175557.1f666aff@X220.alogt.com> <201401121053.s0CAr3Uq011648@sdf.org> <20140112201153.2938604a@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20140112201153.2938604a@X220.alogt.com> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:53:33 -0000 Erich Dollansky wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 04:53:03 -0600 > Scott Bennett wrote: > > > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > > > > > > I only installed 9.2 once but did not face any problems with MBR. > > > > > Did your boot drive have a MBR on it? Or a GPT label? > > > it was also MBR and not GPT. But I made a fresh install and did not do > an upgrade via sources. > Hmmm... Did the stage 2 boot loader change in some important way for i386 between 8.x and 9.2? I would not have thought that putting stuff into /dev would have depended upon anything in the loader. Other than the loader, what else does installkernel leave unchanged? BTW, I just realized that I forgot to mention in my original message that the first 9.2-RELEASE kernel I tried was built with both options GEOM_PART_GPT and options GEOM_PART_MBR When that didn't work, I tried commenting out the first of those (GPT), which was the way I had had them in my 8.2-STABLE kernel. The change made zero difference that I could see. The messages at the point of failure were the same either way. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *or* bennett at freeshell.org * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************