On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:05 AM, jb <jb.1234a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Brandon Allbery <allbery.b <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer <at>
> ultra-secure.de>wrote:
>>
>> > I tried to install 9.1-RC2 amd64 on two disks that previously had some
>> > version of Solaris installed (with grub as boot-manager).
>> > The installation would always be successful, but it would just boot to
>> > grub and then sit there.
>> >
>>
>> RC1 wasn't very good at it either.
>>
>
> I installed RC2 yesterday and noticed that there was no question asked where
> to install boot loader (MBR or FB root slice/partition).
> That's something needing a fix.
> jb
>
>
>
>
Such question does not make sense if the disk is GPT partitioned which
is the default now. The boot loader is installed on a separate
freebsd-boot partition and the MBR of the disk contains a special
"protective MBR".
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