Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:08:28 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.2-RELEASE kernel ignores MBR on boot disk Message-ID: <20140112220828.1e489c27@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <201401121253.s0CCrTe9015766@sdf.org> References: <201401120855.s0C8tb5I022973@sdf.org> <20140112175557.1f666aff@X220.alogt.com> <201401121053.s0CAr3Uq011648@sdf.org> <20140112201153.2938604a@X220.alogt.com> <201401121253.s0CCrTe9015766@sdf.org>
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Hi, On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 06:53:29 -0600 Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> wrote: > Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 04:53:03 -0600 > > Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> wrote: > > > > > Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I only installed 9.2 once but did not face any problems with > > > > MBR. > > > > > > > Did your boot drive have a MBR on it? Or a GPT label? > > > > > it was also MBR and not GPT. But I made a fresh install and did not > > do an upgrade via sources. > > > Hmmm... Did the stage 2 boot loader change in some important > way for i386 between 8.x and 9.2? I would not have thought that > putting stuff into /dev would have depended upon anything in the > loader. Other than the loader, what else does installkernel leave > unchanged? BTW, I just realized that I forgot to mention in my > original message that the first 9.2-RELEASE kernel I tried was built > with both > I upgraded one machine from 8.x via sources to 10 around June/July 2012 without any problems. > options GEOM_PART_GPT > > and > > options GEOM_PART_MBR > > When that didn't work, I tried commenting out the first of those > (GPT), which was the way I had had them in my 8.2-STABLE kernel. The > change made zero difference that I could see. The messages at the > point of failure were the same either way. I have both on 10 and have no problems with it since I have both. It all sounds weird to me. But you can use gpart to install the loaders from 9.2 for a try. Erich > > > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG > ********************************************************************** > * Internet: bennett at sdf.org *or* bennett at freeshell.org * > *--------------------------------------------------------------------* > * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * > * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * > * -- a standing army." * > * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * > **********************************************************************
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