From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 00:06:08 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 067D2462 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from mail.ultra-secure.de (mail.ultra-secure.de [78.47.114.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A88B8FC12 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 51112 invoked by uid 89); 20 Oct 2012 00:06:05 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 51107, pid: 51109, t: 0.0937s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 clamav: 0.97.3/m:54/d:15480 Received: from unknown (HELO linux-wb36.example.org) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.93) by mail.ultra-secure.de with ESMTPA; 20 Oct 2012 00:06:05 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:06:03 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner To: Glen Barber Subject: Re: 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR? Message-ID: <20121020020603.628125c8@linux-wb36.example.org> In-Reply-To: <20121019211130.GM1393@glenbarber.us> References: <50802EFC.2010101@gmail.com> <20121018184426.63c59601@suse3> <50803B22.7000706@gmail.com> <20121019223841.09866aac@linux-wb36.example.org> <20121019211130.GM1393@glenbarber.us> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.7; i586-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Chadd , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Chuck Burns 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: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:06:08 -0000 Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:11:30 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber : > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:38:41PM +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > If I select the "entire disk" for FreeBSD, I think it's a reasonable > > assumption that the MBR should replaced, too. > > Please don't make people install FreeBSD 9.0 first on disks with > > non-FreeBSD MRRs and then upgrade to 9.1. > > > > Can you outline for me in detail what you did when you partitioned > your drive during the installation? I chose "entire disk", then deleted all partitions-suggestions except the first one and created my own partitioning scheme. (/, swap, var, usr, maybe /var/log and /home, too) > I have seen your specific issue exactly once, and reliably reproducing > the problem has not been successful so far. > > BTW, what was on the drive before you did the install, if anything? It had a version of Solaris. Maybe Opensolaris. I don't know exactly. And I don't know if it had zfsroot or not. I created a HW-RAID1 with the HP P400 controller on it. The drives were previously used in another server. I tried to install 9.1RC2 twice on these disks and it always went back to the grub-prompt after reboot. Then I installed 9.0 and it's running now.