From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 4 03:06:04 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 A5790106566C for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 03:06:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f09:679::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD218FC18 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 03:06:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370E4C400C; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 03:06:03 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on muon.cran.org.uk X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=8.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.2.5 Received: from core.draftnet (87-194-158-129.bethere.co.uk [87.194.158.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sun, 4 Apr 2010 03:06:03 +0000 (UTC) From: Bruce Cran To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 04:05:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (FreeBSD/9.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.4.1; amd64; ; ) References: <20100403174812.59c40c99.matheus@eternamente.info> <20100403205856.GA20454@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100403205856.GA20454@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004040405.55356.bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Jeremy 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: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:06:04 -0000 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. Someone 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