Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 16:00:07 -0800 (PST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: bin/2736: No boot block if no FreeBSD partitions on first hard drive Message-ID: <199702150000.QAA12617@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/2736; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2736: No boot block if no FreeBSD partitions on first hard drive Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:50:12 +0100 As richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca wrote: > I installed 2.2-970205-GAMMA on a two-drive system with DOS on the first > drive and FreeBSD on the second. I specified a "BootEasy" boot block for > the first drive, but it didn't get written. Are you sure you selected the first hard drive in the partition editor at all (without doing anything there, of course, apart from answering the boot manager question)? If you only visit the second drive, sysinstall will do what you've told it, and only install the boot manager there. (It violated this principle in the past, but this wasn't actually a Good Thing.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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