Hello, On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:28:25 -0700 Randi Harper <ra...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Bruce Cran <br...@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. Someone 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 > > I disagree with some of the wording. Specifically, lines 100-102 of > usr.sbin/sade/menus.c > > "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." > > ^^ not 100% true, as the boot manager also provides the option of PXE > booting. This statement seems excessively wordy and unnecessary. > > 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 > > -- randi > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
