Subject: Re: mbr and sysinst
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/22/2004 07:59:58
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:38:49PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I just tried sysinst for the 2nd time ever, with 18 April cvs code,
> on an autoclaved ide drive, with option "Use whole disk". All went
> fine, except on reboot their was no mbr. 
> 
> So, fdisk OK, disklabel OK, but needed to manually fdisk -i.

The 'problem' is that the bootselect mbr code is installed (I'm not
exactly sure why) with no menu texts added.  So the boot stops until
you press a key to select one of the menu items...
Pressing <enter> will boot the active partition.

	David

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