Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:09:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Antonio D'souza" <quik@quikbox.ca> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/29375: the disk editor used by /stand/sysinstall gets confused by slices that are not labelled in order and writes the partition table incorrectly. Message-ID: <200108020009.f7209pR99306@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 29375 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: the disk editor used by /stand/sysinstall gets confused by slices that are not labelled in order and writes the partition table incorrectly. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 01 17:10:22 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Antonio D'souza >Release: 4.3-stable >Organization: University of Waterloo >Environment: FreeBSD quikbox.ca 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE #1: Wed May i386 unknown >Description: I need to make a useable partition out of some previously allocated but unused partitions so I fired up /stand/sysinstall (which had been upgraded when I built the world some weeks ago) and ran the disk editor. After deleting 2 exiting partitions and creating a new partition out of the free space, I tried to write the partition table. However, in the process of deleting one of those partition (ad0s2), I caused the partitions to be out of order. Unfortunately, when I tried to write the ptable, it tried to write the part info in the wrong order and failed. After rebooting, the machine would not boot, saying "invalid partition table". I had to use the sysinstall on my installation CD-ROM to fix the problem. This keeps happening every time I try to use the /stand/sysinstall on my machine now. >How-To-Repeat: see desc. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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