Bug 172847 - bsdinstall(8): missing boot loader location selection (MBR, root slice/partition)
Summary: bsdinstall(8): missing boot loader location selection (MBR, root slice/partit...
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Keywords: install
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Reported: 2012-10-18 10:30 UTC by jb.1234abcd
Modified: 2022-10-13 17:47 UTC (History)
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Description jb.1234abcd 2012-10-18 10:30:01 UTC 
Boot loader location selection.

I installed FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 and noticed that there was no question asked
where to install boot loader (MBR or FreeBSD root slice/partition).
We want to have that for multi-boot systems.

It should be added to Committing to the Installation step.

How-To-Repeat: bsdinstall
Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-10-18 15:40:17 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall

fix synopsis and assign
Comment 2 rainer 2012-10-18 21:00:56 UTC 
This also leads to a situation where a previously installed boot-loader =
does not get overwritten and the system is rendered unbootable.
Comment 3 jb.1234abcd 2012-10-21 11:21:15 UTC 
Well, here you go:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=172926&cat=
"(I hope that this problem isn't just down to pilot error. I don't think
that it is, and I can't imagine anything that I missed doing during the
second install. I don't recall having been asked during that process
whether or not the FreeBSD MBR boot loader should or should not be
installed into the MBR.)"
Comment 4 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:05 UTC 
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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