Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:30:02 GMT From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/121124: FreeBSD 6.3 installation deletes MBR partition Message-ID: <200802290230.m1T2U2s6038425@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/121124; it has been noted by GNATS. From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: i386/121124: FreeBSD 6.3 installation deletes MBR partition Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:26:23 -0600 ----- Forwarded message from Dan Strick <dan_strick@sbcglobal.net> ----- My best guess is that sysinstall checked the MBR partition table for sanity and decided to "fix" an overlap by arbitrarily deleting one of the overlapping partitions. That was the wrong thing to do since none of the overlapping partitions was involved in the FreeBSD installation. What other operating systems do with their slices is their business. Generating a warning message was plausible. Making gratuitous changes to the partition table was not. I believe it is common sense for an MBR partition table editor to change only those partitions that it is explicitly told to modify. Sysinstall was not told to modify either of the overlapping slices and should have left them strictly alone. Dan Strick ----- End forwarded message -----
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