8.0-RC1 install "Leave MBR untouched" writes MBR anyway

[Chris Ruiz]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> I had written:
>
>> Just did a mini install of the 8.0-RC1 ISO. After slicing, choosing "Leave
>> the Master Boot Record untouched" is ignored. A standard MBR is
>> installed.
>
> That was on a Toshiba notebook with Vista freshly installed and ACPI
> disabled.  I tried it twice to make sure.
>
> Installing from the same 8.0-RC1 image in qemu works fine, leaving the MBR
> alone.  So either the problem is a figment of my imagination, or is rare
> enough to ignore.  Same thing, really.

Actually, I had the same thing happen when installing 7.2 on my
MacBook (because 8.0-betas/rcs and CURRENT panic on boot).  I selected
Leave the MBR untouched and a standard MBR that only listed my FreeBSD
partition was installed.  I had to boot my OSX install dvd and run
fdisk to fix the MBR.

-- Chris

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