Am Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:31:56 -0500 schrieb Chuck Burns <brea...@gmail.com>:
> On 10/18/2012 11:05 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Kimmo Paasiala > > <kpaas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> 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". > > > > > > And what is supposed to happen if the disk has an existing MBR and > > existing partitions? > > > > Besides which.. Do you want FreeBSD to overwrite the MBR? Yes. I've long since given up on FreeBSD for workstations - I simply don't have the time to get everything right. > Thus > erasing grub when someone is attempting to install FreeBSD alongside > Linux? How many people actually do that, now that there are so many virtualization-options? > If you do not want GRUB, you must remove GRUB and revert to a proper > MBR. And how do you remove GRUB? The original OS did no longer boot in my case.... Do I need to file a PR for this? _______________________________________________ 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"