Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:06:03 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR? Message-ID: <20121020020603.628125c8@linux-wb36.example.org> In-Reply-To: <20121019211130.GM1393@glenbarber.us> References: <FDB45151-C7D2-4BAC-B81B-CF4BD14F1633@ultra-secure.de> <CAKFCL4W2Mg_de1NPyxF42=YPqC9BSsiF8bhT5eNrXe_sk_TxaA@mail.gmail.com> <loom.20121018T100200-200@post.gmane.org> <CA%2B7WWSfVkn%2BJ=k0F4NqdfRG_G2NNzkjKf9HZped_KAsr%2Bg-ZxA@mail.gmail.com> <CAKFCL4WiN1AoiMHAOC8m6hZDFvYD8eQgh3NLWxLzPmu%2BoWp8tA@mail.gmail.com> <50802EFC.2010101@gmail.com> <20121018184426.63c59601@suse3> <50803B22.7000706@gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=CB%2Buv_KT6_5mWx4FibeVUAbVNaFgbdhtnTxivAZHDpw@mail.gmail.com> <20121019223841.09866aac@linux-wb36.example.org> <20121019211130.GM1393@glenbarber.us>
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Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:11:30 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > If I select the "entire disk" for FreeBSD, I think it's a reasonable > > assumption that the MBR should replaced, too. > > Please don't make people install FreeBSD 9.0 first on disks with > > non-FreeBSD MRRs and then upgrade to 9.1. > > > > Can you outline for me in detail what you did when you partitioned > your drive during the installation? I chose "entire disk", then deleted all partitions-suggestions except the first one and created my own partitioning scheme. (/, swap, var, usr, maybe /var/log and /home, too) > I have seen your specific issue exactly once, and reliably reproducing > the problem has not been successful so far. > > BTW, what was on the drive before you did the install, if anything? It had a version of Solaris. Maybe Opensolaris. I don't know exactly. And I don't know if it had zfsroot or not. I created a HW-RAID1 with the HP P400 controller on it. The drives were previously used in another server. I tried to install 9.1RC2 twice on these disks and it always went back to the grub-prompt after reboot. Then I installed 9.0 and it's running now.
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