From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 20 17:04:11 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 74A65519 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:04:11 +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 A3B4C8FC08 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 73805 invoked by uid 89); 20 Oct 2012 17:04:03 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 73800, pid: 73802, t: 0.0470s scanners: attach: 1.4.0 clamav: 0.97.3/m:54/d:15481 Received: from unknown (HELO suse3) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@212.71.117.1) by mail.ultra-secure.de with ESMTPA; 20 Oct 2012 17:04:03 -0000 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:04:02 +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: <20121020190402.253eb553@suse3> In-Reply-To: <20121020001401.GQ1393@glenbarber.us> References: <50802EFC.2010101@gmail.com> <20121018184426.63c59601@suse3> <50803B22.7000706@gmail.com> <20121019223841.09866aac@linux-wb36.example.org> <20121019211130.GM1393@glenbarber.us> <20121020020603.628125c8@linux-wb36.example.org> <20121020001401.GQ1393@glenbarber.us> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-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 17:04:11 -0000 Am Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:14:01 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber : > The grub prompt for (Open)Solaris? Or do you use grub on FreeBSD? I thought it was a linux grub (the Firmware-Update DVD is linux-based and I thought it had gone postal. But I came to realize that it was the Solaris grub. We only use FreeBSD on servers and it's always the only OS on the disks. > I _think_ at this point, you've hit the same problem I hit, the only > difference is that in my case, 9.1-PRERELEASE was installed twice, > because the paritions were not ideal. > > So, my guess is if you were to boot the install cd and select 'Live > CD' or 'Shell' from the first menu option, and wrote the GPT bootcode > to da0p1 (assuming da0 is the drive) and reboot, it would have booted > fine. I don't think this is what a user is expecting from an OS installation routine.... It's a bug. Rainer