install touching mbr

[S Roberts]

Hello,

On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 15:44:50 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010, 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).
> 
> Not sure how to repeat the bug, but it's been there at least a few 
> months:
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?alpine.BSF.2.00.0909262030060.13303
> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?58c737d70909262054k7c7b1402w4f9c902fdca2640c
> 

Sooo.., which **IS** the correct option to leave the existing MBR
untouched???

Regards,

S Roberts

> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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