misc/161113: bsdinstall: 9.0-BETA3: overwrites Win*-bootcodes without warning?

Kalten kalten at gmx.at
Wed Sep 28 22:30:09 UTC 2011


>Number:         161113
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall: 9.0-BETA3: overwrites Win*-bootcodes without warning?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 28 22:30:08 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kalten
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD freeHugin.​Walhalla.​Leben 9.0-BE­TA3 #0: Sat Sep 24 21:21:28 UTC 2011 root@​farrell.​cse.​buffalo.​edu:/​usr/​obj/​usr/​src/​sys/​GENERIC amd64
>Description:
Created new partitions and slices (MBR-Mode).
bsdinstall has overwritten Win7 boot code, es it seems---no questions any more (like in sysinstall) wether we want it to do this or not!?

(Win7 still there (mountable in freeBSD), but not bootable.
Neither ``Startup repair'' nor bootrec in the ``command Prompt'' of Win7's DVD could repair it---althoug dir works on it in the mentioned win-cmd-prompt.)

I am sure, that I am not the only one who would appreciate it very much, if we had the chance to choose wether to write down a bootloader into the disk or not (as we had with sysinstall)
>How-To-Repeat:
Created new partitions and slices (MBR-Mode) in new installer called bsdinstall.
>Fix:


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