From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 9 12:55:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA05519 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:55:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from condor.peregrine.com (condor.peregrine.com [192.72.253.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05483 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:55:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ehedstrom@peregrine.com) Received: from peregrine.com (ehedstrom.peregrine.com [204.33.94.201]) by condor.peregrine.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA11396; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 12:52:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <361E69C7.E80D8F20@peregrine.com> Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 12:53:43 -0700 From: Eric Hedstrom Reply-To: erich@compecon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 install impertinently overwrites boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christoph Kukulies wrote: >I installed 2.2.7 on my notebook from a floppy/DOS partition. >I explicitly hit the space bar so that the [*] appeared in the >selection 'leave bootsector untouched' and the damned beast >overwrote my bootinst multiboot which was already sitting there. Guess what? This just happened to me on Wednesday using a 2.2.6-RELEASE boot disk to do a net install of 2.2.7-RELEASE from ftp.freebsd.org, too. For what it's worth. Eric Hedstrom erich@compecon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message