From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 24 12:41:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CCB1065676 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stacey@vickiandstacey.com) Received: from smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 708C08FC15 for ; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:41:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.68.31.182] (helo=unknown) by smarthost02.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Oce2v-0002XK-8y; Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:41:41 +0000 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:41:40 +0100 From: S Roberts To: Randi Harper Message-ID: <20100724134140.000004b6@unknown> In-Reply-To: References: <20100403174812.59c40c99.matheus@eternamente.info> <20100403205856.GA20454@icarus.home.lan> <201004040405.55356.bruce@cran.org.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-Smarthost02-IP: [82.68.31.182] Cc: Bruce Cran , Jeremy, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Chadwick Subject: Re: install touching mbr X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:41:43 -0000 Hello, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:28:25 -0700 Randi Harper wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Saturday 03 April 2010 21:58:56 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. =A0Someone 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). > > > > I have a patch at http://reviews.freebsdish.org/r/15/ waiting to be > > committed. I believe the "None" option won't change the bootcode > > itself but will still mark the FreeBSD partition as active. > > > > -- > > Bruce Cran >=20 > I disagree with some of the wording. Specifically, lines 100-102 of > usr.sbin/sade/menus.c >=20 > "If you will only have FreeBSD on the machine the boot manager is not > needed and it slows down the boot while offering you the choice of > which operating system to boot." >=20 > ^^ not 100% true, as the boot manager also provides the option of PXE > booting. This statement seems excessively wordy and unnecessary. >=20 > Also, should this be broken up into two patches? One for the change in > sade, the other for sysinstall? I'm not picky about this, but you are > fixing two issues in two separate programs. Any chance that this patch review was completed, approved and made it into 8.1 Release? Thanks. Regards, S Roberts >=20 > -- randi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"