From nobody Mon Jan 13 10:12:57 1997 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA26803; Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:12:57 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701131812.KAA26803@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 10:12:57 -0800 (PST) From: fenner@parc.xerox.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-BETA install sometimes asks about boot mgr and sometimes doesn't X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 >Number: 2484 >Category: bin >Synopsis: 2.2-BETA install sometimes asks about boot mgr and sometimes doesn't >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: jkh >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 13 10:20:01 PST 1997 >Closed-Date: Mon Feb 24 23:50:12 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: Mon Feb 24 23:51:17 PST 1997 >Originator: Bill Fenner >Release: 2.2-BETA >Organization: Xerox >Environment: 2.2-BETA install floppy >Description: I have had to attempt to install FreeBSD 2.2-BETA approximately 6 times so far. During those 6 attempts, I have gotten significantly varying behavior from the partition editor. On one attempt, it warned me that my geometry was bogus and selected a new one, but on the other 5 it did not. It also sometimes asks me what boot manager I want, but sometimes does not. The first time I ran it I selected "Dangerously Dedicated" mode and it definitely did not ask me what kind of boot manager I wanted. The further times I didn't select anything, since the existing partition information was correct, and it did ask me what kind of boot manager I wanted. >How-To-Repeat: Install several times, select Dangerously Dedicated mode the first time and don't edit the partition table the second...Nth times. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: fenner@parc.xerox.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/2484: 2.2-BETA install sometimes asks about boot mgr and sometimes doesn't Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 00:07:47 +0100 As fenner@parc.xerox.com wrote: > The first time I ran it I selected "Dangerously Dedicated" mode > and it definitely did not ask me what kind of boot manager I wanted. > The further times I didn't select anything, since the existing partition > information was correct, and it did ask me what kind of boot manager > I wanted. That's basically a known bug. Sysinstall decides whether to not present you the boot manager menu based on you previously explicitly selecting DD mode _during this run_ of the partition editor. It should do it based on an analysis of the disk structure, but that will require some restructuring of code. After all, it's ``dangerously'' dedicated mode. :-) There are still some dangers left as an exercise for the reader... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->jkh Responsible-Changed-By: mpp Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Feb 22 21:36:00 PST 1997 Responsible-Changed-Why: sysinstall problem. State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: jkh State-Changed-When: Mon Feb 24 23:50:12 PST 1997 State-Changed-Why: Joerg is right - sysinstall keeps more state than is good for it. I think it's going to be one of those "rewritten before fixed" sorts of things, so I'll close this PR. :-) >Unformatted: