From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 27 21:29:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA03496 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 21:29:41 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA03491 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 1995 21:29:38 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id FAA07269; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 05:19:54 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199511280519.FAA07269@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 210R Install Feedback To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 05:19:53 +0000 () Cc: gvw@brainaid.oche.de, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <12510.817401152@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 26, 95 07:52:32 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1133 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > 1. I boot my 2.0.5R system and OS/2 from the OS/2 Bootmanager. I installed > > 210R to sd2 and told sysinstall not to touch the bootblock. > > Afterwards the bootmanager was deactivated, and the system booted the > > old 205R partition by default. Hmm. > > This seems to be a problem, but neither Poul-Henning and I can figure > out why. I literally don't write to a disk that's not selected, > yet people are telling me the boot blocks are getting touched for their > first drive anyway. I can't figure it out. The OS/2 bootmangler lives in a partition all to itself; I would guess you're changing the active partition to point to the FreeBSD partition (or the user is in the installer) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[