problem with 4.4 installboot

[Josh Grosse]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:23:28 -0600, Michael wrote

> Thanks Josh. It worked "kinda" ;)
> I printed your directions and followed them exactly, but after runningstep 4, I got the same "installboot: broken MBR" problem. 
> I went aheadand rebooted the hd to make sure, and sure enough, I got the ERR M. 
> I might get in trouble here, but I thought to myself that if 4.3installs fine, why not try your directions with the 4.3 cd.
> I did, and 4.4 now boots perfectly.

For i386 and amd64, none of the software involved --  installboot, biosboot, and boot --  have had any changes between 4.3 and 4.4.  So using the older disc is fine.

> Guess my copy of 4.4 may be bad? Everything else seems to haveinstalled just fine.

It's possible, but unlikely.  Why unlikely?  If one were bad, they're probably all bad, as AFAIK these are pressed, not burned.
And, this is the first problem of this type I'd seen reported; lots of folks have received their CDs already. :)

I didn't order a set this time around, so I cannot examine the CDs m'self.  If you wish, you can e-mail me a copy of bsd.rd 
from the disc you received, and I can take a look at the files in the ramdisk kernel, comparing 'em with my own 4.4-release 
builds.  You'll find bsd.rd on the applicable disc in <path to your cd mount point>/4.4/<architecture>.  Hint:  don't cc the
list. :)
 
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