From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 17:21:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 920C716A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:21:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD6B43D49 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:21:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A67FB0400088; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:21:03 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j8LHN471072718; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:23:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j8LHMwQT072717; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: K Wieland References: <2cdb8d1853d56424121c721237176f90@wustl.edu> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:22:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: <2cdb8d1853d56424121c721237176f90@wustl.edu> (K. Wieland's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:29:20 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.17 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual boot solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:21:10 -0000 K Wieland writes: > If anyone could add to this I would be interested. I suppose that you say > Even if you choose not to alter the MBR. because of the last install menu item below { { "BootMgr", "Install the FreeBSD Boot Manager", { "Standard", "Install a standard MBR (no boot manager)", { "None", "Leave the Master Boot Record untouched", (from src/release/sysinstall/menus.c) That last one is clearly misleading, even if it is in the context of picking a boot manager, because later "fdisk" operations are certainly able to change the MBR's primary partition table, including the "active" bits that gave you trouble. I'll try to get the menu items changed to something like: { { "BootMgr", "Install the FreeBSD interactive boot manager", { "Standard", "Install the FreeBSD non-interactive boot manager", { "None", "Don't Install any boot manager", If you'd like, you could file a formal PR about this (and CC me, please) and maybe someone will beat me to it.