9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

[Chuck Burns]

On 10/18/12 11:44, Rainer Duffner wrote:
> Am Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:31:56 -0500
> schrieb Chuck Burns <break19 at gmail.com>:
>
>> On 10/18/2012 11:05 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Kimmo Paasiala
>>> <kpaasial at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Such question does not make sense if the disk is GPT partitioned
>>>> which is the default now. The boot loader is installed on a
>>>> separate freebsd-boot partition and the MBR of the disk contains a
>>>> special "protective MBR".
>>>
>>>
>>> And what is supposed to happen if the disk has an existing MBR and
>>> existing partitions?
>>>
>>
>> Besides which.. Do you want FreeBSD to overwrite the MBR?
>
> Yes.
> I've long since given up on FreeBSD for workstations - I simply don't
> have the time to get everything right.
>
>> Thus
>> erasing grub when someone is attempting to install FreeBSD alongside
>> Linux?
>
>
> How many people actually do that, now that there are so many
> virtualization-options?
>
>
>> If you do not want GRUB, you must remove GRUB and revert to a proper
>> MBR.
>
> And how do you remove GRUB?
> The original OS did no longer boot in my case....
>
> Do I need to file a PR for this?
>
>
Simply zero out first few MB of the drive, when you create a new 
partition map, a new MBR is created.

Chuck