From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 1 16:09:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABD016A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:09:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from parati.mdbrasil.com.br (parati.mdbrasil.com.br [200.210.70.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C67543D1F for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 16:09:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br) Received: (qmail 41933 invoked by uid 1003); 1 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Received: from eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br by parati.mdbrasil.com.br by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (uvscan: v4.1.60/v4288. Clear:RC:1(200.166.92.123):. Processed in 0.014812 secs); 01 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsdbrasil.com.br) (200.166.92.123) by parati.mdbrasil.com.br with SMTP; 1 Nov 2004 16:09:08 -0000 Message-ID: <41865FC2.6000400@freebsdbrasil.com.br> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 13:09:38 -0300 From: Patrick Tracanelli Organization: FreeBSD Brasil LTDA User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031207 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: -RC2 needs BootMngr to control certail partition layout X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 16:09:54 -0000 I've noted a courious behaviour w/ standard boot code. I've just installed, as usual, a "real life" testing enviroment, the partition layout is disposed this way: /dev/ad0s1b none /dev/ad0s2b none /dev/ad0s1a / /dev/ad0s1d /tmp /dev/ad0s1e /usr /dev/ad0s2d /usr/home /dev/ad0s1f /var /dev/ad0s1g /var/qmail /dev/ad0s2e /usr/local/vpopmail If I install the standard boot code via sysinstall the first reboot after installation does not boot the system. It shows up a "invalid partition table" message and stops. Have reinstalled the standard boot after the reinstallation via CDROM (Custom, Partitions, (S)et the 2 primary partition Active and (W)rite information do disk. If I once again install the standard boot, the behaviour repeats on the next boot, "invalid partition table". But with Boot Manager even seting only the first primary partition active, everything works fine after pressing F1 on BootMngr. So, this layout needs BootMngr, even the system being a single-boot one. Any output would help? -- Atenciosamente, Patrick Tracanelli FreeBSD Brasil LTDA. The FreeBSD pt_BR Documentation Project http://www.freebsdbrasil.com.br patrick @ freebsdbrasil.com.br "Long live Hanin Elias, Kim Deal!"