Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 21:26:59 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk> To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) Cc: phk@ref.tfs.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available Message-ID: <2614.9506052026@thor.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <m0sIfXn-0006SmC@bagend.atl.ga.us> from "Jan Isley" at Jun 5, 95 01:02:27 pm
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In reply to Jan Isley who said > > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > > This floppy set does not crash when I request no MBR writing. > > > > However, it has done something stranger still. Upon rebooting > > > > after the install, I do not get the OS/2 BM screen, I get a > > > > cleared screen and then "Strike a key to reboot". To recover > > > > > > Hmmm. To be honest, I'm not sure what happens in that case! I would > > > have thought that libdisk would have left the MBR boot area completely > > > untouched, but evidently not! I only call Set_Boot_Mgr() if I want to > > > Hmm, In that case it will set the FreeBSD slice active, since we have > > no other way to get freebsd booted afterwards... > > I am installing FreeBSD on wd1 and it indeed makes that slice active, > but it should not touch wd0. OS/2 BM is on wd0 and after an encounter > with FreeBSD sysinstall, there are no partitions marked active on wd0. > Hmm, if the user decides the MBR shouldn't be written we shouldn't really touch it. Why not print out a warning and some instructions along the lines of, "Automatic reboot is not possible without writing the MBR, please ensure that FreeBSD is selected upon reboot." -- Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, http://www.freebsd.org/~paul Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1222 457651 (home)
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