From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 13:02:56 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA26193 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:02:56 -0700 Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (emory.mathcs.emory.edu [128.140.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA26149 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:02:49 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA02259 ; Mon, 5 Jun 95 16:02:43 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sIfXn-0006SmC; Mon, 5 Jun 95 13:02 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:02:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199506050250.TAA19251@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 4, 95 07:50:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1075 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > This floppy set does not crash when I request no MBR writing. > > > However, it has done something stranger still. Upon rebooting > > > after the install, I do not get the OS/2 BM screen, I get a > > > cleared screen and then "Strike a key to reboot". To recover > > > > Hmmm. To be honest, I'm not sure what happens in that case! I would > > have thought that libdisk would have left the MBR boot area completely > > untouched, but evidently not! I only call Set_Boot_Mgr() if I want to > Hmm, In that case it will set the FreeBSD slice active, since we have > no other way to get freebsd booted afterwards... I am installing FreeBSD on wd1 and it indeed makes that slice active, but it should not touch wd0. OS/2 BM is on wd0 and after an encounter with FreeBSD sysinstall, there are no partitions marked active on wd0. > Could you go into the (undocumented) 'W'izard mode and email me the > output ? you mean type -w at the floppy boot prompt? sure? which output so I know what to look for? -- Jan Isley jan@bagend.atl.ga.us