From nobody  Fri Feb 14 12:32:58 1997
Received: (from nobody@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA29473;
          Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:32:58 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <199702142032.MAA29473@freefall.freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:32:58 -0800 (PST)
From: richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: No boot block if no FreeBSD partitions on first hard drive
X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0

>Number:         2736
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       No boot block if no FreeBSD partitions on first hard drive
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 14 12:40:00 PST 1997
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jun 8 08:14:46 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jun  8 08:15:40 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Rich Wales
>Release:        2.2-970205-GAMMA
>Organization:
>Environment:
Not available at the moment.
>Description:
I installed 2.2-970205-GAMMA on a two-drive system with DOS on the first
drive and FreeBSD on the second.  I specified a "BootEasy" boot block for
the first drive, but it didn't get written.  The only way I could boot
was to use my installation floppy and type an alternate boot location.

I tried running /stand/sysinstall to rewrite the boot block, but no luck.

I rearranged my system to put my FreeBSD root and swap on the first drive,
and then reinstalled FreeBSD.  The system boots fine now.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD on a system with two IDE drives.  Don't put any FreeBSD
partitions on the first drive.
>Fix:
Workaround:  Put at least one FreeBSD partition on the first drive.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2736: No boot block if no FreeBSD partitions on first hard drive
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 00:50:12 +0100

 As richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca wrote:
 
 > I installed 2.2-970205-GAMMA on a two-drive system with DOS on the first
 > drive and FreeBSD on the second.  I specified a "BootEasy" boot block for
 > the first drive, but it didn't get written.
 
 Are you sure you selected the first hard drive in the partition editor
 at all (without doing anything there, of course, apart from answering
 the boot manager question)?  If you only visit the second drive,
 sysinstall will do what you've told it, and only install the boot
 manager there.  (It violated this principle in the past, but this
 wasn't actually a Good Thing.)
 
 -- 
 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. ;-)

From: Rich Wales <richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/2736: No boot block if no FreeBSD partitions on first hard drive
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:58:12 -0500 (EST)

 Joerg --
 
 Replying to:
 
 	Are you sure you selected the first hard drive in the
 	partition editor at all (without doing anything there,
 	of course, apart from answering the boot manager ques-
 	tion)?  If you only visit the second drive, sysinstall
 	will do what you've told it, and only install the boot
 	manager there.  (It violated this principle in the
 	past, but this wasn't actually a Good Thing.)
 
 Yes, I did select the first hard drive, and I did answer the "boot
 manager" question for that drive.  But it silently ignored my action.
 
 Rich Wales    richw@yank.kitchener.on.ca    http://www.webcom.com/richw/
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jun 8 08:14:46 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Timeout on an ancient PR for a really old release on a branch for  
which no further releases are planned. :-) 
>Unformatted:
