From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 17:32:29 2003 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 EDF7D16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52C4643FB1 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4662972DA3; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4188472DA2; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:32:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Sergey Matveychuk In-Reply-To: <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> Message-ID: <20031029173150.Q39476@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <3F9F299C.8050504@ciam.ru> <20031029090121.U37386@carver.gumbysoft.com> <3F9FF8DD.7040100@ciam.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with sysinstall 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: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 01:32:30 -0000 On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > "Missing operating system" comes out of the DOS default bootblock, not the > > BIOS. > > Yes, I know. But I don't feel better then. It means you were barking up the wrong tree :) > > > Don't use chainloader with FreeBSD. Use 'kernel /boot/loader' instead. > > This is documented in the GRUB info doc. Again, I have set this exact > > system up with redhat on the first disk and it works perfectly. > > Grub do not supporting UFS2. So only way to boot -current is chainloader. OK, I didn't test this. It works with UFS1 :) > > This is normal and for your protection. you can't edit the disk you're > > running off of. If you are running off of ad1, make sure 1) you're root > > when you run sysinstall and b) you aren't mounting any filesystems from > > ad0. > > Well, I understand it for slices. But why I can't create new partition > in exist slice and newfs it? It was OK in -stable. yes, this is a change to -current. It is for your own safety. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org