On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Warren Block <wblock_at_wonkity.com> wrote: > I had written: > >> Just did a mini install of the 8.0-RC1 ISO. After slicing, choosing "Leave >> the Master Boot Record untouched" is ignored. A standard MBR is >> installed. > > That was on a Toshiba notebook with Vista freshly installed and ACPI > disabled. I tried it twice to make sure. > > Installing from the same 8.0-RC1 image in qemu works fine, leaving the MBR > alone. So either the problem is a figment of my imagination, or is rare > enough to ignore. Same thing, really. Actually, I had the same thing happen when installing 7.2 on my MacBook (because 8.0-betas/rcs and CURRENT panic on boot). I selected Leave the MBR untouched and a standard MBR that only listed my FreeBSD partition was installed. I had to boot my OSX install dvd and run fdisk to fix the MBR. -- Chris ----------------------------------------- http://twitter.com/chrisattack http://chrisattack.comReceived on Sun Sep 27 2009 - 01:54:07 UTC
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