freebsd stable - Oct 2012 - 9.1-RC2 - could it be that the installer does not write the MBR?

Hi,

I tried to install 9.1-RC2 amd64 on two disks that previously had some version
of Solaris installed (with grub as boot-manager).
The installation would always be successful, but it would just boot to grub and
then sit there.

It's a rather old G1 BL460C blade, but 9.0 installs flawlessly.

I didn't have time to really test it through because the server needed to
get installed and it had taken me some time to realize what had happened.

Maybe someone might want to look into this.

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at
ultra-secure.de>wrote:
> I tried to install 9.1-RC2 amd64 on two disks that previously had some
> version of Solaris installed (with grub as boot-manager).
> The installation would always be successful, but it would just boot to
> grub and then sit there.
>
RC1 wasn't very good at it either.

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On 10/18/2012 11:05 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 5:31 AM, Kimmo Paasiala <kpaasial at
gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Such question does not make sense if the disk is GPT partitioned which
>> is the default now. The boot loader is installed on a separate
>> freebsd-boot partition and the MBR of the disk contains a special
>> "protective MBR".
>
>
> And what is supposed to happen if the disk has an existing MBR and existing
> partitions?
>
Besides which.. Do you want FreeBSD to overwrite the MBR? Thus erasing 
grub when someone is attempting to install FreeBSD alongside Linux?

If you do not want GRUB, you must remove GRUB and revert to a proper MBR.

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