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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
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>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. :-) 
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