From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 13:28:46 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA00915 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:28:46 -0700 Received: from dove.cf.ac.uk (dove.cf.ac.uk [131.251.0.52]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA00885 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:28:38 -0700 Received: from thorarchive.cf.ac.uk by dove.cf.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <22763-0@dove.cf.ac.uk>; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 21:28:19 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <2614.9506052026@thor.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 21:26:59 +0100 (BST) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jan Isley" at Jun 5, 95 01:02:27 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1391 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In reply to Jan Isley who said > > 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. > Hmm, if the user decides the MBR shouldn't be written we shouldn't really touch it. Why not print out a warning and some instructions along the lines of, "Automatic reboot is not possible without writing the MBR, please ensure that FreeBSD is selected upon reboot." -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)