From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 18 17:22:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FBCA53D for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from break19@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5428FC08 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so18519570iea.13 for ; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:22:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=U9gxP4Pi0/Sp2hGl/cpjwyshcIS3I8nSm33NiDzDmoM=; b=00uhKuIeUWJ52wQaQSsuhz9zYw50fOiO4wXebxeEI94SuivSymiBmvgkYm12VjGnjn wweS3wy+1eSeN4INx9kfEwvmhzX3m+PD0+ImrS/7IOyp0EHpqPEQKTDaaetIWOUrybbu XnpiTFk9mSFfJD0n4voT/40mmmaXDHoR3iCQ/4FtTo7b4iesM2+6uRjq5wn9ChmmfOyf /yfY0m9x2JTNG03CHJNCTHiVnkBMoSn52gOlmY1X7fn+Tc5pT04l/isifp1C0RRPGu5+ BphADjuVom56JGppKvZOHUht8wCJ9hyPyjJuRfwSBXqHx4GUK5kdfzMB65lTbA/O5CqP cdZQ== Received: by 10.50.179.97 with SMTP id df1mr5693771igc.2.1350580940227; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:22:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blackbeast.local (173-17-34-224.client.mchsi.com. [173.17.34.224]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id az6sm13794344igb.11.2012.10.18.10.22.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50803B22.7000706@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:23:46 -0500 From: Chuck Burns User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120929 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rainer Duffner Subject: Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR? References: <50802EFC.2010101@gmail.com> <20121018184426.63c59601@suse3> In-Reply-To: <20121018184426.63c59601@suse3> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:22:21 -0000 On 10/18/12 11:44, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:31:56 -0500 > schrieb Chuck Burns : > >> On 10/18/2012 11:05 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Kimmo Paasiala >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Such question does not make sense if the disk is GPT partitioned >>>> which is the default now. The boot loader is installed on a >>>> separate freebsd-boot partition and the MBR of the disk contains a >>>> special "protective MBR". >>> >>> >>> And what is supposed to happen if the disk has an existing MBR and >>> existing partitions? >>> >> >> Besides which.. Do you want FreeBSD to overwrite the MBR? > > Yes. > I've long since given up on FreeBSD for workstations - I simply don't > have the time to get everything right. > >> Thus >> erasing grub when someone is attempting to install FreeBSD alongside >> Linux? > > > How many people actually do that, now that there are so many > virtualization-options? > > >> If you do not want GRUB, you must remove GRUB and revert to a proper >> MBR. > > And how do you remove GRUB? > The original OS did no longer boot in my case.... > > Do I need to file a PR for this? > > Simply zero out first few MB of the drive, when you create a new partition map, a new MBR is created. Chuck