install touching mbr

Bruce Cran bruce at cran.org.uk
Sun Apr 4 03:06:04 UTC 2010


On Saturday 03 April 2010 21:58:56 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:48:12PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> > I just installed a 8.0R amd64 from memstick. when asked, I said to
> > leave mbr untouched. when I rebooted, it was freebsd bootloader that
> > was on control. this options is not what I think it should, or there
> > is really a issue here ?
> 
> I can confirm this behaviour.  Someone may have broken something when
> tinkering around in that part of sysinstall (since the Standard vs.
> BootMgr options were moved around compared to previous releases).

I have a patch at http://reviews.freebsdish.org/r/15/ waiting to be committed. 
I believe the "None" option won't change the bootcode itself but will still 
mark the FreeBSD partition as active.

-- 
Bruce Cran


More information about the freebsd-stable mailing list