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.
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Bruce Cran
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