problems with sysinstall

[Doug White]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Sergey Matveychuk wrote:

> Doug White wrote:
> > "Missing operating system" comes out of the DOS default bootblock, not the
> > BIOS.
>
> Yes, I know. But I don't feel better then.

It means you were barking up the wrong tree :)

>
> > Don't use chainloader with FreeBSD.  Use 'kernel /boot/loader' instead.
> > This is documented in the GRUB info doc. Again, I have set this exact
> > system up with redhat on the first disk and it works perfectly.
>
> Grub do not supporting UFS2. So only way to boot -current is chainloader.

OK, I didn't test this. It works with UFS1 :)

> > This is normal and for your protection. you can't edit the disk you're
> > running off of.  If you are running off of ad1, make sure 1) you're root
> > when you run sysinstall and b) you aren't mounting any filesystems from
> > ad0.
>
> Well, I understand it for slices. But why I can't create new partition
> in exist slice and newfs it? It was OK in -stable.

yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety.

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