Default MBR boot "manager"

Teske, Devin Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com
Mon Nov 11 21:19:30 UTC 2013


Topic: Lenovo Laptops and bsdinstall zfsboot with MBR layout...

Should we do the quick patch to change the default
from /boot/boot0 to /boot/mbr:

Index: zfsboot
===================================================================
--- zfsboot     (revision 258016)
+++ zfsboot     (working copy)
@@ -764,7 +764,7 @@ zfs_create_diskpart()
                #
                f_eval_catch $funcname gpart "$GPART_CREATE" mbr \$disk ||
                             return $FAILURE
-               f_eval_catch $funcname gpart "$GPART_BOOTCODE" /boot/boot0 \
+               f_eval_catch $funcname gpart "$GPART_BOOTCODE" /boot/mbr \
                             \$disk || return $FAILURE

                #

That would fix things for Lenovo laptops for the next
release until I finish up the bootcode selection menu.
I'd like to take my time in making sure Allan and I design
a worthy bootcode selection menu.
-- 
Devin

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