From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 15 05:57:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0764B16A507 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:57:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlandys@gmail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F82513C46E for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:57:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlandys@gmail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 16so2818190fgg.35 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=6P3Gkhz10kMKWOzx2uwr2YtZQylkAXnU7zvQvz8ThHA=; b=AiGPN96n8FrZEgPFtpMDGHq3Xw8VR5W7OjILThD9yJDkgqtMGX41WCYZjN+2JJ8UFlQieFsZNfpLadPSSASZg8PwLVe6xHA6djY5uo7ugFnR9EIyVDvhP/Ds/c1F9Lmj/9kth+xH+lO+Q9eAEZhb0IwF1pSBo6exyvHTt94KkGM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=CYc1/GaxKpY9kxAmJM7vBaLQ3oiKSxUIn5/YAc8C2Edj8csOcdqmXC4LoNSVO7jhG22zm7jGJ8VA9iRPo4eAnuinO1wQ3JOPkqZhIJBxDSoXXnmOXmxEg9vdjLckIEdKChHu4F1Ty1hAha0akEDFcx13ASF5IlrBKgejY2Jds+g= Received: by 10.82.184.2 with SMTP id h2mr12452594buf.22.1200376669937; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.180.16 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <560f92640801142157n7194be23u8c4eac084ed474c9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:49 -0800 From: "Nerius Landys" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:57:52 -0000 I was trying to install 7.0RC1 (hope it's OK to post this here, because I believe that older versions of FreeBSD have this same limitation) and came across a gotcha. I had an MBR on disk that I wanted to keep. It was Lilo and all it did was boot a selected slice, it was configured to function the same as FreeBSD's `boot0'. So, the install of FreeBSD came to the area where it asks what to do with the MBR. There are three choices: 1) boot manager, 2) simple MBR, and 3) do nothing. I chose to do nothing because I wanted to keep Lilo in the MBR. But, by choosing this option, I expected sysinstall to install the /boot/boot code to the beginning of the FreeBSD slice. Well, no such boot code was installed, apparently, unless I totally missed something. Basically, after the install, when I delegated Lilo to boot the chosen [FreeBSD] slice, it did not find any boot code on that slice. My workaround for this was to choose option 1) boot manager. I ended up using boot0 (the boot manager) which I feel is superior to Lilo because it is more modular, simpler. However, some users may not want this. I didn't find any option in sysinstall to install just the /boot/boot code to the beginning of the FreeBSD slice. Am I missing something?