Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 07:57:35 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <22018.890323055@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:54:39 %2B0100." <19980319165439.56949@follo.net>
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> 1. Install a disk using dangerously dedicated mode. > 2. Reboot. > 3. Select custom install. > 4. 'fdisk' the disk, doing nothing. > 5. Watch sysinstall come up with a full-screen request with 3 choices > - IIRC, "Install booteasy", "Install standard MBR", and "Do nothing > to my bootblock". The default choice is either a standard MBR or > booteasy; I forget which. If you don't change the default, your > disk is toast on 'Commit'. Erm... But that's exactly what I'd expect to have happen? > I've been caught by this myself, and I've seen quite a few people > being caught by it since. You need to be alert and have a good > understanding of the FreeBSD disk-layout to not get caught. Well, yes.. But I'm not sure that this one's fixable using methods that wouldn't in themselves be worse than the problem. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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