Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 13:02:27 -0400 (EDT) From: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us (Jan Isley) To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New "release candidate floppies" available Message-ID: <m0sIfXn-0006SmC@bagend.atl.ga.us> In-Reply-To: <199506050250.TAA19251@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 4, 95 07:50:04 pm
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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. > Could you go into the (undocumented) 'W'izard mode and email me the > output ? you mean type -w at the floppy boot prompt? sure? which output so I know what to look for? -- Jan Isley jan@bagend.atl.ga.us
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