Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 06:53:29 -0600 From: Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> To: erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9.2-RELEASE kernel ignores MBR on boot disk Message-ID: <201401121253.s0CCrTe9015766@sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <20140112201153.2938604a@X220.alogt.com> References: <201401120855.s0C8tb5I022973@sdf.org> <20140112175557.1f666aff@X220.alogt.com> <201401121053.s0CAr3Uq011648@sdf.org> <20140112201153.2938604a@X220.alogt.com>
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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
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.
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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