From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 13 08:07:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA11197 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 08:07:26 -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 IAA11191 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 08:07:24 -0700 Received: from bagend.UUCP by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.14) via UUCP id AA03413 ; Thu, 13 Jul 95 11:07:10 -0400 Received: by bagend.atl.ga.us (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0sWPWF-0004pHC; Thu, 13 Jul 95 10:45 EDT Message-Id: From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Subject: Re: A problem with disklabel & "use entire disk" on 2.0.5R. To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 10:45:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at Jul 13, 95 11:30:41 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 904 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > Hmm. The install prog has the choices 1) use a bootmgr 2) use a std MBR > and 3) don't touch the MBR. With 1) and 2) i was not able to boot, shall > i use 3) ? What if the disk were a virgin one without any existing "slices" ? Okay, it may behave differently when you have no other os on the disk, but... when I was testing the install program in May and June I had a OS/2 Boot Manager partition, a DOS partition, an OS/2 partion and 600MB of free space on disk0 and an empty disk1. Every time I selected option 3 - do nothing to the MBR, whether I was putting FreeBSD on disk0, disk1 or both, IT DID TOUCH THE MBR. If I had another controller and a virgin disk I would be glad to test that case ad nauseum. :) -- Jan Isley If you couldn't find any weirdness, maybe we'll just have to make some! -- Hobbes