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From: jb <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: bsdinstall - missing boot loader location selection (MBR, root slice/partition)
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>Number:         172847
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall(8): missing boot loader location selection (MBR, root slice/partition)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-sysinstall
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 18 09:30:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sun Oct 21 10:30:01 UTC 2012
>Originator:     jb
>Release:        FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 9.1-RC2 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241133: Tue Oct  2 17:11:45 UTC 2012     root@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
Boot loader location selection.

I installed FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 and noticed that there was no question asked
where to install boot loader (MBR or FreeBSD root slice/partition).
We want to have that for multi-boot systems.

It should be added to Committing to the Installation step.

>How-To-Repeat:
bsdinstall
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall 
Responsible-Changed-By: eadler 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Oct 18 14:40:17 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
fix synopsis and assign 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=172847 

From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,
 jb.1234abcd@gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/172847: bsdinstall(8): missing boot loader location selection (MBR, root slice/partition)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:00:56 +0200

 This also leads to a situation where a previously installed boot-loader =
 does not get overwritten and the system is rendered unbootable.
 

From: J B <jb.1234abcd@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jb.1234abcd@gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/172847: bsdinstall(8): missing boot loader location selection
 (MBR, root slice/partition)
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:21:15 +0200

 Well, here you go:
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=172926&cat=
 "(I hope that this problem isn't just down to pilot error. I don't think
 that it is, and I can't imagine anything that I missed doing during the
 second install. I don't recall having been asked during that process
 whether or not the FreeBSD MBR boot loader should or should not be
 installed into the MBR.)"
>Unformatted:
