Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:41:40 +0100 From: S Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, Jeremy, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Subject: Re: install touching mbr Message-ID: <20100724134140.000004b6@unknown> In-Reply-To: <x2ye277d6c81004052228ge14e0c40j8513ed6bb070965f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100403174812.59c40c99.matheus@eternamente.info> <20100403205856.GA20454@icarus.home.lan> <201004040405.55356.bruce@cran.org.uk> <x2ye277d6c81004052228ge14e0c40j8513ed6bb070965f@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:28:25 -0700 Randi Harper <randi@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > > On Saturday 03 April 2010 21:58:56 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:48:12PM -0300, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: > >> > I just installed a 8.0R amd64 from memstick. when asked, I said > >> > to leave mbr untouched. when I rebooted, it was freebsd > >> > bootloader that was on control. this options is not what I think > >> > it should, or there is really a issue here ? > >> > >> I can confirm this behaviour. =A0Someone may have broken something > >> when tinkering around in that part of sysinstall (since the > >> Standard vs. BootMgr options were moved around compared to > >> previous releases). > > > > I have a patch at http://reviews.freebsdish.org/r/15/ waiting to be > > committed. I believe the "None" option won't change the bootcode > > itself but will still mark the FreeBSD partition as active. > > > > -- > > Bruce Cran >=20 > I disagree with some of the wording. Specifically, lines 100-102 of > usr.sbin/sade/menus.c >=20 > "If you will only have FreeBSD on the machine the boot manager is not > needed and it slows down the boot while offering you the choice of > which operating system to boot." >=20 > ^^ not 100% true, as the boot manager also provides the option of PXE > booting. This statement seems excessively wordy and unnecessary. >=20 > Also, should this be broken up into two patches? One for the change in > sade, the other for sysinstall? I'm not picky about this, but you are > fixing two issues in two separate programs. Any chance that this patch review was completed, approved and made it into 8.1 Release? Thanks. Regards, S Roberts >=20 > -- randi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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