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Subject: Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?
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Brandon Allbery <allbery.b <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer <at>
ultra-secure.de>wrote:
> 
> > I tried to install 9.1-RC2 amd64 on two disks that previously had some
> > version of Solaris installed (with grub as boot-manager).
> > The installation would always be successful, but it would just boot to
> > grub and then sit there.
> >
> 
> RC1 wasn't very good at it either.
> 

I installed RC2 yesterday and noticed that there was no question asked where
to install boot loader (MBR or FB root slice/partition).
That's something needing a fix.
jb