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<font size="2"><b>On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:23:28 -0600, Michael wrote</b>
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<br /></span>> Thanks Josh. It worked "kinda" ;)
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I printed your directions and followed them exactly, but after
running
step 4, I got the same "installboot: broken MBR" problem.
<br />> I went
ahead
and rebooted the hd to make sure, and sure enough, I got the ERR M.
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I might get in trouble here, but I thought to myself that if
4.3
installs fine, why not try your directions with the 4.3 cd.
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I did, and 4.4 now boots perfectly.
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<br /></font><font size="2">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.</font>
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Guess my copy of 4.4 may be bad? Everything else seems to
have
installed just
fine.
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<br />It's possible, but unlikely. Why unlikely? If one were bad, they're probably all bad, as AFAIK these are pressed, not burned.
<br />And, this is the first problem of this type I'd seen reported; lots of folks have received their CDs already. :)
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<br />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
<br />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
<br />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
<br />list. :)
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