bin/48341: [sysinstall] sysinstall deletes mbr although it should not

[Heiner]

The following reply was made to PR bin/48341; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Heiner <h.eichmann at gmx.de>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org,
 freebsd-qa at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/48341: [sysinstall] sysinstall deletes mbr although it should not
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:01:37 +0200

 I have now tested the installation of FreeBSD 6.1 on a machine with some other 
 OS already existing. I've choosen 'none' as described in the bug description. 
 The goal was to use the existing boot manager and point it afterwards to the 
 FreeBSD installation as well.
 
 Result: the system was not bootable after the FreeBSD installation. An 
 analysis shows, that the mbr was not deleted or destroyed; just the active 
 flag was removed and the FreeBSD slice was set active. Setting the previous 
 slice active resolved the problem!
 
 So the bug text should be replaced by:
 
 sysinstall changes the active slice flag although the corresponding sysinstall 
 question was answered with "None - Leave Master Boot Record untouched"
 
 
 Heiner