I know this is all a bit confusing. The error message complains about the mbr, but the mbr is really fine. All of it. The boot manager, partition table and magic number on the first sector of the disk are all fine. Since the sector itself is fine, the error message therefore must mean that there is a problem reading the first sector. This is done by the rc script inst/hasmbr from a hexdump of the first sector. It's the disk read which is failing, despite the fact that the sector has already been read correctly at least once at this point in the install.
Unfortunately I have to go away for a couple of weeks, and won't really have time to try anything else on the install until I get back. > Hi all! > Sorry if I missed the point in this issue. > FreeBSD in particular has an option to in- > stall not just mbr, but even boot manager. > It is what you probably want. > > Zoran > -- John Stalker School of Mathematics Trinity College Dublin tel +353 1 896 1983 fax +353 1 896 2282
