On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Robert Huff <roberthuff_at_rcn.com> wrote: > On 1/2/2013 1:57 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: > > >> For a full clean install, I believe that bsdinstall should prompt about >> installing bootcode around here. I don't really understand from your >> procedure how bsdinstall was used; there might be some edge case where >> there is no prompt about bootcode. >> >>> 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, got it up and running, everything was >>> good. > > > Let me elaborate on this: > > 2) Installed off the 9.0 CD, had a fully bootable system connected > to the Internet, everything was good. > > >> I think you should investigate the 'bootcode' subcommand of gpart(8). > > > Does the above change things? > It was my expectation "installkernel" would Do The Right Thing with > respect to new bootcode, and I am surprised it did not. installkernel does absolutely nothing to the boot partition. You need to use bsdinstall or gpart to write the new image to disk. That said, I know of no reason that the boot code written by the 9.0 install would fail to boot head. I am running 9.1 on a GPT disk and it works fine, but I that disk is ada1 and I have booteasy installed on the MBR of ada0. It has no problems booting the 9.1 system. (Windows 7 in on ada0.) Then again, I am hardly an expert on the subject. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6558_at_gmail.comReceived on Fri Jan 04 2013 - 00:32:37 UTC
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