Bug 87846

Summary:	5.4 will NOT work with any other os on disk
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Lloyd M Caldwell <lmc>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Lloyd M Caldwell 2005-10-22 17:40:13 UTC

1) system has ntfs partition (xp, sp2) install 5.4, reboot no 5.4os.  let 5.4 "overwrite" MBR destroyed ntfs partition (years of xp stuff gone!)
2) install 5.4 on empty disk, reboot runs ok, install ntfs (xp-sp2) and 5.4 is no longer found, no operating system, bios message.

How-To-Repeat: performed the install combinations on 3 different motherboard harddisk combinations, there is NO WAY to install 5.4 on a system with other partitions present.  i.e. 5.4 is WRONG in how it determines and uses disk partition geometry, HOW CAN SOMETHING SO OLD AND BASIC GET SO SCREWED UP!!!!!

Comment 1 Gabor Kovesdan 2005-10-22 17:55:44 UTC

I had even older FreeBSD releases with Windows XP on the same disk. You 
must have done something wrong. Read the Handbook once more (You have 
already read it at least once, right?), and follow the instructions. And 
please read the FAQ and the documentation first, then ask, and only send 
a PR if You don't get any solution for your problem. Anyway, FreeBSD 5.4 
has been released almost half a year ago. If it had such a trivial bug 
somebody would have already found it.

Gabor Kovesdan

Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2005-10-23 19:12:53 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->feedback

Set as probably not i386-specific.  Note that submitter has been asked 
for feedback.

Comment 3 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2005-10-23 19:12:53 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-bugs

Comment 4 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2007-04-24 05:23:54 UTC

State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed

Feedback timeout (> 1 year).