From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 14:25:23 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA09417 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 14:25:23 -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 OAA09403 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 14:25:18 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA07343 ; Mon, 5 Jun 95 17:25:14 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sIjYc-0006SmC; Mon, 5 Jun 95 17:19 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available To: spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 17:19:34 -0400 (EDT) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <2614.9506052026@thor.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jun 5, 95 09:26:59 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: 1069 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Paul Richards wrote: > 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." Right. Just wait to lots more Linux users try FreeBSD and sysinstall steps on their LILO setup ... suddenly the freebsd.misc newsgroup will become as popular (polluted) as linux.whatever newsgroups ... it will not be a pretty sight. The point is that *many* people will come to FreeBSD with one or more operating systems on their computer already and *will* have a boot manager installed already and will *not* want to experiment with yet another boot manager no matter how great boot easy may be. something like: "If you do not update the MBR, to reboot FreeBSD you must have some other boot manager installed." well, it needs work. :) -- Jan Isley | If you couldn't find any weirdness, jan@bagend.atl.ga.us | maybe we'll just have to make some! - Hobbes