misc/151990: bin: usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall - Fix bug when booting MBR partitions and no boot-loader selected

Kris Moore kmoore at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 6 18:30:11 UTC 2010


>Number:         151990
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bin: usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall - Fix bug when booting MBR partitions and no boot-loader selected
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 06 18:30:10 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kris Moore
>Release:        9.0-Current
>Organization:
PC-BSD / iXsystems
>Environment:
9.0-Current
>Description:
When we switched to the gpart backend, and provided selection between MBR & GPT, the MBR full-disk init failed to stamp boot1, and results in a boot not found error. This patch fixes the issue. 
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


Patch attached with submission follows:

--- src.o/usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend/functions-disk.sh	2010-11-05 12:05:57.066860900 -0400
+++ src/usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall/backend/functions-disk.sh	2010-11-06 14:15:26.462959357 -0400
@@ -646,8 +646,11 @@
   rc_halt "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/${_intDISK}s1 count=1024"
   
   if [ "$_intBOOT" = "bsd" ] ; then
-    echo_log "Stamping boot sector on ${_intDISK}"
+    echo_log "Stamping boot0 on ${_intDISK}"
     rc_halt "gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot0 ${_intDISK}"
+  else
+    echo_log "Stamping boot1 on ${_intDISK}"
+    rc_halt "gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot1 ${_intDISK}"
   fi
 
 }


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