Bug 48341 MBR OverWrites

[Frank Mitchell]

Re: Problem 48341: sysinstall deletes mbr

I just bought a new computer and installed NetBSD, followed by FreeBSD. The
NetBSD Boot Selector has advantages, so I installed it and told sysinstall
to Leave MBR Unaltered. And apparently it did.

I encountered the MBR issue earlier this year, and John Baldwin supplied an
alternative explanation:
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From: "John Baldwin" <jhb at freebsd.org>
To: <freebsd-qa at freebsd.org>
Cc: "Frank Mitchell" <mitchell at cloudynwuk.force9.co.uk>;
<matteo at freebsd.org>; <h.eichmann at gmx.de>
Subject: Re: bin_48341 & Dual-Booting
Date: 22 March 2006 21:56

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 11:20, Frank Mitchell wrote:
> Dear Matteo Riondato,
> Being new to FreeBSD, I wanted to re-run sysinstall a few times without
> disturbing my Windows Me boot set-up. So I chose the "Boot Manager = None"
> Option, intending to leave the MBR untouched while I investigated the
> possibility of booting from a Floppy. But I soon found my machine rebooted
> into FreeBSD every time. I didn't see Windows Me again until I installed
the
> FreeBSD Boot Manager, which luckily dual-booted okay. (Windows Me gave
> problems using Lilo).

This is because the default boot manager windows installs just boots the
'active' slice, and sysinstall marked the FreeBSD slice as active.

John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
"Power Users Use the Power to Serve"  =  http://www.FreeBSD.org
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Faictz Ce Que Vouldras: Frank Mitchell





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