Subject: Re: mbr and sysinst
To: Ian Zagorskih <ianzag@megasignal.com>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/22/2004 10:59:39
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:26:24PM +0700, Ian Zagorskih wrote:
> ? ????????? ?? Thursday 22 April 2004 04:38 Patrick Welche ???????(a):
> > 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.
> >
>
> AFAIU when you choose "Use whole disk" this means explicitly "Get rid of DOS
> stuff like MBR and use native UNIX disklabel". And install does exactly this.
>
> I usually use this type of installation when i'm not planing to use any other
> OSes on the same hdd together with NetBSD.
>
> So AFAIU (sic!:) that's not a problem, that's a [good] feature :)
Close - but then /dev/?d0c would start at 0 not 63, as it does with a
sysinst install..
P