From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 10:26:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E377CCE2; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:26:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2351E254; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.239] (unknown [202.172.110.132]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92A5637815FF; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:26:18 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <5471B649.7030500@spin.net.au> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 21:26:17 +1100 From: Rob Diamond Reply-To: robd@spin.net.au User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allan Jude , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggested option for the DVD Installer References: <546DBC66.6060508@spin.net.au> <546DF0CB.9010905@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <546DF0CB.9010905@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:26:27 -0000 Hi Allan, Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. However, I think you missed the main point of my original post (sorry if i was a bit verbose - comes from being an IT contractor/consultant who never uses one word when ten will do). I can and did work out that the problem was that my (old) PC's BIOS didn't support GPT partitions, and therefore I had to go for an MBR disk layout instead. My point is that when I followed the default "Guided" option the installer defaulted to GPT, and on exiting the installer my PC wouldn't boot. At this point a FreeBSD noob would have a great deal of difficulty diagnosing the problem, and would most likely give up and try some other distro. For example, I tried installing PC-BSD-10, and after the installer had finished the same PC re-booted fine (it used an MBR layout), and I was away. Previously I've tried Ubuntu and Linux Mint on the same PC, and again both re-booted fine. So I think an extra effort is needed with the installer to get a noob up and running - once they've got something to play with then, OK, expect them to read the manual. But to expect a noob to diagnose the problem, and then manually partition using MBR is unrealistic. And then they're lost to FreeBSD.. Also, there's the following in the FreeBSD manual "GPT is usually the most appropriate choice for amd64 computers. Older computers that are not compatible with GPT should use MBR. The other partition schemes are generally used for uncommon or older computers." I think the wording should be a bit stronger than this - something like "Older computers that are not compatible with GPT will not boot from a GPT disk, and must use the older MBR partition type." Anyway, just my 2 cents.. Regards, Rob Diamond On 21/11/14 00:46, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2014-11-20 05:03, Rob Diamond wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I would like to suggest an option for an MBR install on the current 10.1 >> DVD installer image. Some background: >> >> I'm a refugee from the Linux systemd wars. >> >> I have been running Gentoo for 10-15 years, but finally got fed up with >> the problems of keeping my system up to date. If I left the system for a >> couple of months then any attempt to upgrade something/everything would >> block because of intertwined dependencies and the fast pace of updates >> to packages. So a few months ago, after trying various other Linux >> distros I installed Linux Mint. It's dead easy to install, sound, video, >> printers work pretty well out of the box. But I hate the complexity of >> everything, and the way it's starting to look like Windoze: >> >> - grub2, with its unreadable config file and convoluted set-up and >> update (Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I don't want to waste a couple of >> hours working out how to change some settings when I'll forget in a >> couple of days). >> - the "quiet, splash" default boot option, with the mindless jiggling >> logo instead of being able to see what's going on. >> - the byzantine complexity of systemd (Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I >> don't want to waste a couple of months working out how to change some >> settings when I'll forget in a couple of seconds). >> - etc, etc >> >> BTW I'm NOT a FreeBSD noob. I started off installing 386BSD on a PC-AT >> (if there's anyone here young enough to remember that !), and I've got >> the Walnut Creek CDROMs for FreeBSD 2.0 and 2.2 in my bottom drawer. >> >> However, I had a problem getting FreeBSD to install on my "test" PC. The >> motherboard is a few years old, and the BIOS has no clue about GPT >> partioning. I first tried the default install, but (and it takes a long >> time to boot and install off DVD) after rebooting my BIOS couldn't find >> an OS. I tried Googling for a clue, but as usual the problem is that >> there's way too much information out there and most of it is not >> current. So next I tried partitioning with gpart and setting up an MBR >> disk, but I kept getting complaints about the partition not being 4k >> aligned. So then I tried using the "Expert mode" patitioning, but I put >> a swap partition first, so.. no boot. Finally I found something that >> said to make sure "/" was the first partition, and (after re-booting and >> installing for the umpteenth time) I was in business. >> >> It would have been much easier if there was a default MBR partioning >> option, with a label saying something like "MBR partitioning for older >> hardware", which would give installers a clue, and which got the user >> going with the first (or second) install. >> >> We can't afford to put people off by making it difficult to get their >> first installation running - once you have a working system it's easier >> to learn about various aspects of the OS. But expecting inexperienced >> people with older hardware to be able to work out how to partition an >> MBR disk is unrealistic. They'll just give up and go back to something >> like Ubuntu. >> >> My 2 cents worth. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Rob Diamond. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sysinstall >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-sysinstall-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The installer does support MBR, for both UFS and ZFS installs > > This section of the handbook shows the partitioning stage for the main > install option: > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-partitioning.html#bsdinstall-part-guided > > So, select the disk (top item), choose modify and pick 'mbr', then > choose 'create' and accept the defaults (this will create the freebsd > wrapper partition). Now press the down arrow to select that partition, > and select create again. This will create a freebsd-ufs partition, set > the mount point to / and modify the size to be slightly smaller than > your entire disk (by the amount of swap you want to have). Create 1 more > partition for swap with the remaining space, change the type to > 'freebsd-swap'. > > Then select finish, and you should be good to go. > From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 11:30:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F33915A0; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:30:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B2F09AE; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:30:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.239] (unknown [202.172.110.132]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07A237816B1; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:30:54 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <5471C56D.4070701@spin.net.au> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 22:30:53 +1100 From: Rob Diamond Reply-To: robd@spin.net.au User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggested option for the DVD Installer References: <546DBC66.6060508@spin.net.au> <546E11FC.4020402@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <546E11FC.4020402@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:30:56 -0000 Hi Nathan, Thanks very much for taking the time to reply - much appreciated. The motherboard in my test PC is older than I thought (how time flies when you get older!) - it's an Intel DG33TL, and the original BIOS ID was DPP3510J.86A.0216.2007.0502.1916 - meaning it's around 2007 vintage. The CPU is an Intel Core2 Duo E4500 - pretty old, but still snappy running Linux. I tried upgrading the BIOS firmware to version 0572/2009. And then looking at the BIOS options (sorry, I didn't check before I upgraded) there is an option "UEFI boot" which was disabled. I enabled the option and tried another default FreeBSD install, but it still won't boot the GPT-partitioned disk. Now I come to think of it I have had trouble before with this motherboard when trying to clone disks. If I used a USB caddy for a SATA drive and formatted and partitioned the disk in it, then when I installed the drive in the machine (i.e. direct SATA connection) grub couldn't find any valid partitions ?? I've never had that problem with previous motherboards, or the Intel DH61CR I'm currently using in my main desktop PC. BTW, I did get FreeBSD running OK in the end with a manual MBR partitioning scheme. And I also gave PC-BSD-10 a try - that install worked first go, using an MBR-style partitioning scheme. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to listen, and Best Regards, Rob Diamond. On 21/11/14 03:08, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > Such an option exists already: in the installer partition editor, > choose the disk you are installing on, press "Modify", choose MBR (or > GPT or a disklabel, or whatever you want), then partition as you like > or press "Auto". If this isn't in the handbook, it should be. > > What motherboard/BIOS is this, by the way? I'm trying to make a list > of systems with problems. Machines that can't boot from GPT are > usually EFI systems (which should work with the EFI media) and fail to > boot because they think GPT means EFI. Older pure-BIOS systems > shouldn't have problems -- you can boot 386s off of GPT without issue. > There are a couple of exceptions (some Compaq BIOSes, if I remember > right), but it would be nice to know what they are. > -Nathan > > On 11/20/14 02:03, Rob Diamond wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I would like to suggest an option for an MBR install on the current >> 10.1 DVD installer image. Some background: >> >> I'm a refugee from the Linux systemd wars. >> >> I have been running Gentoo for 10-15 years, but finally got fed up >> with the problems of keeping my system up to date. If I left the >> system for a couple of months then any attempt to upgrade >> something/everything would block because of intertwined dependencies >> and the fast pace of updates to packages. So a few months ago, after >> trying various other Linux distros I installed Linux Mint. It's dead >> easy to install, sound, video, printers work pretty well out of the >> box. But I hate the complexity of everything, and the way it's >> starting to look like Windoze: >> >> - grub2, with its unreadable config file and convoluted set-up and >> update (Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but I don't want to waste a couple >> of hours working out how to change some settings when I'll forget in >> a couple of days). >> - the "quiet, splash" default boot option, with the mindless jiggling >> logo instead of being able to see what's going on. >> - the byzantine complexity of systemd (Yeah, I know I could RTFM, but >> I don't want to waste a couple of months working out how to change >> some settings when I'll forget in a couple of seconds). >> - etc, etc >> >> BTW I'm NOT a FreeBSD noob. I started off installing 386BSD on a >> PC-AT (if there's anyone here young enough to remember that !), and >> I've got the Walnut Creek CDROMs for FreeBSD 2.0 and 2.2 in my bottom >> drawer. >> >> However, I had a problem getting FreeBSD to install on my "test" PC. >> The motherboard is a few years old, and the BIOS has no clue about >> GPT partioning. I first tried the default install, but (and it takes >> a long time to boot and install off DVD) after rebooting my BIOS >> couldn't find an OS. I tried Googling for a clue, but as usual the >> problem is that there's way too much information out there and most >> of it is not current. So next I tried partitioning with gpart and >> setting up an MBR disk, but I kept getting complaints about the >> partition not being 4k aligned. So then I tried using the "Expert >> mode" patitioning, but I put a swap partition first, so.. no boot. >> Finally I found something that said to make sure "/" was the first >> partition, and (after re-booting and installing for the umpteenth >> time) I was in business. >> >> It would have been much easier if there was a default MBR partioning >> option, with a label saying something like "MBR partitioning for >> older hardware", which would give installers a clue, and which got >> the user going with the first (or second) install. >> >> We can't afford to put people off by making it difficult to get their >> first installation running - once you have a working system it's >> easier to learn about various aspects of the OS. But expecting >> inexperienced people with older hardware to be able to work out how >> to partition an MBR disk is unrealistic. They'll just give up and go >> back to something like Ubuntu. >> >> My 2 cents worth. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Rob Diamond. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sysinstall >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-sysinstall-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 14:36:47 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A02CF14; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B3D9BC9D; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sANEaiac077523 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:36:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id sANEahDI077520; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:36:44 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:36:43 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Rob Diamond Subject: Re: Suggested option for the DVD Installer In-Reply-To: <5471B649.7030500@spin.net.au> Message-ID: References: <546DBC66.6060508@spin.net.au> <546DF0CB.9010905@freebsd.org> <5471B649.7030500@spin.net.au> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 23 Nov 2014 07:36:44 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, Allan Jude X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 14:36:47 -0000 On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Rob Diamond wrote: > My point is that when I followed the default "Guided" option the installer > defaulted to GPT, and on exiting the installer my PC wouldn't boot. At this > point a FreeBSD noob would have a great deal of difficulty diagnosing the > problem, and would most likely give up and try some other distro. For > example, I tried installing PC-BSD-10, and after the installer had finished > the same PC re-booted fine (it used an MBR layout), and I was away. > Previously I've tried Ubuntu and Linux Mint on the same PC, and again both > re-booted fine. So I think an extra effort is needed with the installer to > get a noob up and running - once they've got something to play with then, OK, > expect them to read the manual. But to expect a noob to diagnose the problem, > and then manually partition using MBR is unrealistic. And then they're lost > to FreeBSD.. > > Also, there's the following in the FreeBSD manual > > "GPT is usually the most appropriate choice for amd64 computers. Older > computers that are not compatible with GPT should use MBR. The other > partition schemes are generally used for uncommon or older computers." > > I think the wording should be a bit stronger than this - something like > "Older computers that are not compatible with GPT will not boot from a GPT > disk, and must use the older MBR partition type." The problem there is telling the user how to figure out whether their computer is not compatible with GPT. The GPT partitioning scheme includes a "PMBR". This "protective" MBR is there both to protect the GPT partitioning and to allow BIOS computers to boot from GPT disks. In short, it allows GPT to be used with older computers that never expected to see anything other than an MBR. The large majority of older computers can boot from the PMBR and use GPT just fine. However, there are several ways that some vendors messed this up. The most common way was a BIOS that had some extra awareness of partition type or layout. Some vendors did this so they could use their own special partitions. Compaq used to put their BIOS on disk, IBM/Lenovo had their own utility partitions, and HP and Acer did similar things. Some of these saw the PMBR with its single partition of type 0xee and assumed the wrong thing, failing because of the built-in assumptions in the BIOS. Some of these can be cured with a BIOS upgrade. Lenovo had problems with models from three or four years back, and fixed them. FreeBSD also had a bug in the way it created the PMBR in previous versions. Very strict BIOS or UEFI implementations would then refuse to boot. As far as I know, this problem is fixed in FreeBSD 10.1. From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 23 18:54:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC9A4388; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from d.mail.sonic.net (d.mail.sonic.net [64.142.111.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D232D885; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zeppelin.tachypleus.net (polaris.tachypleus.net [75.101.50.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by d.mail.sonic.net (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sANIsFte016182 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:54:15 -0800 Message-ID: <54722D56.4000208@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:54:14 -0800 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Block , Rob Diamond Subject: Re: Suggested option for the DVD Installer References: <546DBC66.6060508@spin.net.au> <546DF0CB.9010905@freebsd.org> <5471B649.7030500@spin.net.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sonic-CAuth: UmFuZG9tSVYYEH4zwipTWp9R8Ynmr2gqAeHMthNOzoG5hK4rtVGhk09OLBUcxhbs2q/jzNP3OCewKkg54Y8BrUFZQN9G7pVepEwY1K2DNH0= X-Sonic-ID: C;sInUHkJz5BGAtFG2qJ4NOg== M;5AoaH0Jz5BGAtFG2qJ4NOg== X-Spam-Flag: No X-Sonic-Spam-Details: 0.0/5.0 by cerberusd Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, Allan Jude X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:54:24 -0000 On 11/23/14 06:36, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Rob Diamond wrote: > >> My point is that when I followed the default "Guided" option the >> installer defaulted to GPT, and on exiting the installer my PC >> wouldn't boot. At this point a FreeBSD noob would have a great deal >> of difficulty diagnosing the problem, and would most likely give up >> and try some other distro. For example, I tried installing PC-BSD-10, >> and after the installer had finished the same PC re-booted fine (it >> used an MBR layout), and I was away. Previously I've tried Ubuntu and >> Linux Mint on the same PC, and again both re-booted fine. So I think >> an extra effort is needed with the installer to get a noob up and >> running - once they've got something to play with then, OK, expect >> them to read the manual. But to expect a noob to diagnose the >> problem, and then manually partition using MBR is unrealistic. And >> then they're lost to FreeBSD.. >> >> Also, there's the following in the FreeBSD manual >> >> "GPT is usually the most appropriate choice for amd64 computers. >> Older computers that are not compatible with GPT should use MBR. The >> other partition schemes are generally used for uncommon or older >> computers." >> >> I think the wording should be a bit stronger than this - something >> like "Older computers that are not compatible with GPT will not boot >> from a GPT disk, and must use the older MBR partition type." > > The problem there is telling the user how to figure out whether their > computer is not compatible with GPT. > > The GPT partitioning scheme includes a "PMBR". This "protective" MBR > is there both to protect the GPT partitioning and to allow BIOS > computers to boot from GPT disks. > > In short, it allows GPT to be used with older computers that never > expected to see anything other than an MBR. The large majority of > older computers can boot from the PMBR and use GPT just fine. > > However, there are several ways that some vendors messed this up. The > most common way was a BIOS that had some extra awareness of partition > type or layout. Some vendors did this so they could use their own > special partitions. Compaq used to put their BIOS on disk, IBM/Lenovo > had their own utility partitions, and HP and Acer did similar things. > Some of these saw the PMBR with its single partition of type 0xee and > assumed the wrong thing, failing because of the built-in assumptions > in the BIOS. > > Some of these can be cured with a BIOS upgrade. Lenovo had problems > with models from three or four years back, and fixed them. > > FreeBSD also had a bug in the way it created the PMBR in previous > versions. Very strict BIOS or UEFI implementations would then refuse > to boot. As far as I know, this problem is fixed in FreeBSD 10.1. Right, the whole situation is terrible. There are basically five choices here: 1. Always use MBR when booted from BIOS, just in case the BIOS is broken. This breaks systems with disks > 2 TB and makes some things like ZFS booting more complex. 2. Use MBR booting when a broken BIOS is identified. This requires a list of broken BIOSes, which we don't have (this is why I asked for a way to identify the BIOS -- the strings from kenv would help, too). 3. Use MBR with disks less than 2 TB and on BIOS systems. This is a reasonable choice (to within the issues with ZFS), but required more work than we could get in before 10.1. 4. Add a box to choose -- but the user usually has no idea whether their system is broken or not without trying it, so making the correct choice on a first installation is usually impossible. 5. Improve the Handbook to note that this is a possible issue and what to do about. None of these are really satisfying and they all involve tradeoffs. To hurt the smallest number of people, most of them involve knowing something about the relative prevalence of various issues with BIOSes and of > 2 TB disks, which we just don't have data on. Usually, as Warren noted, the BIOS is trying too hard to interpret things and the usual way in which it is doing that is to try UEFI boot if the disk is GPT. Since we actually support UEFI boot and installation now, this case should usually disappear if EFI is activated in the BIOS. Thoughts on the remaining options for 10.2 would be much appreciated. The basic problem, that, courtesy of EFI BIOSes and historical limits with MBR meeting large disks, it is suddenly impossible to format disks on PCs in a way that boots them 100% of the time, is always going to find some way to cause problems for us. -Nathan From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 24 08:00:29 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D32133BA for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD273BAF for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sAO80TR1022949 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:00:29 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201411240800.sAO80TR1022949@kenobi.freebsd.org> From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: [FreeBSD Bugzilla] Commit Needs MFC MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Bugzilla-Type: whine X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:00:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 08:00:30 -0000 Hi, You have a bug in the "Needs MFC" state which has not been touched in 7 or more days. This email serves as a reminder that you may want to MFC this bug or marked it as completed. In the event you have a longer MFC timeout you may update this bug with a comment and I won't remind you again for 7 days. This reminder is only sent on Mondays. Please file a bug about concerns you may have. This search was scheduled by eadler@FreeBSD.org. (165 bugs) Bug 7232: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7232 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): suggestion for FreeBSD installation dialog Bug 8867: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8867 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): [patch] /stand/sysinstall core dumps (signal 11) if you try to allocate 25 partitions at once. Bug 14318: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14318 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall upon install has some counter-intuitive features Bug 15038: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15038 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): easy to not notice that selection lists must be scrolled. Bug 16948: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16948 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall/disklabel: bad partition table when single->multiple slices Bug 20282: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20282 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall does not recover some /etc files Bug 23402: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23402 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): upgrade ought to check partition sizes Bug 27216: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27216 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): can not get to shell prompt from serial console install. Bug 29375: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29375 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): disk editor gets confused by slices that are not labeled in order and writes the partition table incorrectly. Bug 30517: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30517 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): using sysinstall with install.cfg has no way to delete existing partitions Bug 30737: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30737 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall leaks file descriptors on restart Bug 31363: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31363 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): "partition editor" silently corrects partition table Bug 32375: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32375 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall doesn't respect User generated interrupt during download Bug 35400: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35400 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall could improve manipulation of /etc/hosts Bug 36916: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36916 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [libdisk] [patch] DOS active partition flag lost in libdisk and sysinstall Bug 37710: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37710 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): LAN interface in wrong state after attempting net install Bug 38055: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38055 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Groups (creation) item should be before Users Bug 38056: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38056 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): User (creation)'s "Member groups" item should list available groups Bug 38057: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38057 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): "install" document doesn't display correctly under docs section Bug 38478: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38478 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): In Choose Distributions screen, it's difficult to remove XFree86 Bug 38610: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38610 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): should be able to mount ISO images on DOS filesystems Bug 38854: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38854 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): resetting during setup causes the target installation path to change from "/mnt" (new root partition) to "/" (the memory disk) Bug 39580: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39580 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): [request] more secure mount options Bug 40260: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40260 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): hang when detecting devices (No CD/DVD devices found...) Bug 41850: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41850 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall fails to create root filesystem on Mylex RAID controller Bug 41949: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41949 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall sorts /etc/rc.conf during netboot Bug 42022: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42022 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): non-interactive mode prompts when only a serial console is present Bug 42162: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42162 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): after restart, installation crashes, md0c filled up. Bug 44915: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44915 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): 'choose installation media' choose CD-ROM and error it doesnt exist, yet it does!! Bug 45608: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45608 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): install should config all ether devices, not just the first. Bug 46235: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46235 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): NTP servers for Finland require updating Bug 46905: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46905 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): FreeBSD 5.x cannot be installed from multisession CD-ROM Bug 48341: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48341 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): changes the active slice flag when it perhaps shouldn't Bug 48989: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48989 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Sysinstall's partition editor gets confused by partitions created out-of-order Bug 53131: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53131 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): "ALL" could not turn check BOXes ON at packages selection Bug 53341: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=53341 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): [patch] dump frequency in sysinstall is always the fsck sequence number Bug 60632: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60632 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): UI bug in partition label screen in sysinstall Bug 61603: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61603 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): wrong geometry guessed Bug 61890: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61890 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): fdisk(8) uses incorrect calculations for disk geometry guessing and validation Bug 62367: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62367 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): 5.2.1-RC installation problems Bug 62702: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62702 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): backup of /etc and /root during sysinstall upgrade can loop if user backs up /etc in /root tree Bug 65774: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65774 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): cannot run repair disk when booted from USB CD-ROM Bug 69723: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69723 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): [request] allow to continue from package install failure Bug 69942: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69942 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall changes /etc/rc.conf after install Bug 69986: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69986 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): [patch] no job control in fixit shell on serial console Bug 70002: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=70002 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): fails to locate FTP dirs if the OS has patchlevel Bug 72895: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=72895 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Sysinstall generates invalid partition table Bug 73410: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73410 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Sysinstall could not allocate disklabel Bug 73617: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73617 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): fdisk editor unmarks active partition Bug 77001: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77001 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall binary upgrade clobbers /etc/login.conf.db Bug 78964: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=78964 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): can not write labels to hdd on installation Bug 79621: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79621 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall(8) does not create a device when using a disklabel Bug 79840: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79840 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Partitioning and formating a new disk fails using sysinstall Bug 79910: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79910 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Cannot escape from failed port/package install Bug 80117: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=80117 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): [patch] smbfs install option for sysinstall Bug 86454: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86454 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall terminates with signal 10 if INDEX is corrupted Bug 86665: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86665 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall binary upgrade clobbers named.conf Bug 86859: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86859 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Installer should ask about Linux earlier Bug 88826: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88826 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall infinity wait for da0 Bug 90656: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=90656 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): 6.0-RELEASE (i386) cannot be installed via wlan/wep Bug 93275: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93275 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Failure to install after restarting install program while contacting FTP host Bug 97108: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97108 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) Bug 101762: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101762 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) does not obey /usr/ports symlink while installing ports tree Bug 102498: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102498 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Cursor doesn't track sysinstall hilight Bug 107830: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107830 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Change Units (Z) in fdisk doesn't work when fdisk doesn't like the disk geometry Bug 108191: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108191 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Disklabel editor help text (by F1 key) Bug 110151: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110151 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall(8) don't respects install root while partitioning Bug 112757: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112757 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): sysinstall(8): in the FDISK tool we can't move the cursor under the UTF-8 locale Bug 113682: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113682 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] sysinstall(8) warns for invalid geometry which is not Bug 118021: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118021 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [keyboard] 7.0 Beta 2 sysinstall keyboard emits control character with all keypresses Bug 118449: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118449 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Installer failing dns lookups Bug 119077: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119077 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] sysinstall(8) - reading packages from index is extremely slow Bug 121124: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121124 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): FreeBSD 6.3 installation deletes MBR partition Bug 121503: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121503 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): 7.0 upgrade doesn't let me mount all of my partitions Bug 123304: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123304 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): missing sensible and user friendly progress bar in installator Bug 126819: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126819 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) During install if initial name look-up fails, all subsequent lookups fail Bug 129762: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129762 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) doesn't seem to support GPT for EFI boards Bug 130655: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130655 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): no IPV4 if answer "no" when "Do you want to configure IPV6" Bug 132114: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=132114 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] add new 'docs' virtual category to sysinstall Bug 134425: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134425 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) custom distributions select all and deselected does install deselected sets Bug 135317: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135317 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: install.cfg feature request Bug 137713: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137713 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): installer partition editor generates insane label Bug 137864: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137864 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] sysinstall(8): add possibility to shutdown/poweroff without modifying /etc/rc.conf Bug 138025: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138025 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) fails to create big partition Bug 138423: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138423 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Installer (and sade) get wrong number of sectors per trac Bug 139181: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139181 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: WITHOUT_LEGACY_CONSOLE=1 breaks sysinstall(8) Bug 140595: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140595 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [request] sysinstall(8): Replace "Country Selection" with "Country/Region Selection" Bug 140842: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140842 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): destroyed ncurses interface with FBSD8.0 installing from USB Bug 140843: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140843 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): cannot software install from usb Bug 140972: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140972 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick Fixit broken - No USB devices found! Bug 142335: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142335 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: Download of Release 8.0 LIVE is NOT a "live" from CD program. Bug 142867: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142867 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): in a custom installation re-entering the 'Partition' menu does not show 'Select Drives' list Bug 145027: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145027 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: Remove all sysinstall(8) references to floppy and slip & pppd or kernel ppp Bug 145735: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145735 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) trashes Vista-created partition tables Bug 146299: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=146299 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): cannot create slice Bug 148053: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=148053 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) labeling Bug 148201: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=148201 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): core dump (Error 10) while trying to install packages via sysinstall Bug 148220: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=148220 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): 9.0-current gets "Cannot resolv hostname ftp.freebsd.org" during install [regression] Bug 148805: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=148805 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [hang] FreeBSD 7.2, 8.0, and 9.0 hang during install at probing devices Bug 150237: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150237 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Suggestion: installer should suggest the user to install bsdstats port Bug 150995: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=150995 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): corruption of partition table Bug 154613: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154613 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) does not rescan USB automatically Bug 154788: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154788 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) crashes if no network interface found Bug 157117: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157117 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Add ftp4.se.freebsd.org to list of IPv6 ftp mirrors in sysinstall Bug 157189: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157189 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): Default /etc/sysctl.conf should be removed. Bug 157635: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157635 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): "none" Do not install a boot manager - touches mbr anyway Bug 161047: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161047 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] bsdinstall(8): should not run on vt0 Bug 161049: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161049 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): could try to tell if SSDs support TRIM Bug 161050: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161050 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): should use new syntax for IPv4 in rc.conf Bug 161052: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161052 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): should be consistent about saving configuration settings Bug 161053: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161053 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): network setup dialog is hard to navigate Bug 161054: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161054 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): partitioner should list valid "type"s Bug 161055: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161055 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): partitioner should auto-populate GPT labels Bug 161056: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161056 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): could allow full control over newfs arguments Bug 161100: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161100 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): 9.0-BETA3: Add User but no Add Group Bug 161101: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161101 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): 9.0-BETA3: partition editor: UFS-options not saved in menu? Bug 161113: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161113 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): 9.0-BETA3: overwrites Win*-bootcodes without warning? Bug 161837: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161837 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [libdisk] [patch] sysinstall(8) has a 32 disk limit Bug 161923: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161923 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8) games & ports install options Bug 161924: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161924 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): add msg box telling user to remove install media Bug 161928: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161928 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): (add option to enable 2 button mouse copy/paste) Bug 161929: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161929 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): (change partition editor screen default) Bug 162258: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162258 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): long-time bugs Bug 162364: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162364 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): update sysinstall ftp mirror list for ch.freebsd.org Bug 162428: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162428 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): should check available disk space from distfiles Bug 162429: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162429 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): 9.x installer: selecting ZFS for the root partition results in error Bug 162605: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162605 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) doesn't identify CD/DVD drives for the user Bug 163123: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163123 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): IPV6 only errors connecting Bug 163943: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163943 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8) fails to detect CD device when booting with some media devices Bug 164094: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164094 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): installer progress over 100% Bug 164097: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164097 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): always installs GPT Bug 164267: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164267 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8) bugs when RE-installing to GPT partitions Bug 164281: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164281 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): please allow sysinstall as installer option Bug 164284: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164284 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): FreeBSD install assign incorrect dev as bootup disk Bug 164291: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164291 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): bsdinstall and filestetyem selection / creation Bug 164294: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164294 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE bsdinstall dvd does not have media selection dialog Bug 164399: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164399 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): 9.0 installer failures Bug 165600: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165600 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): 8.3 installation DVD asking for non existing DISK for package installation Bug 166241: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166241 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] Speedup and some improvements of sysinstall(8) Bug 166801: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166801 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): FreeBSD install is apparently not writing boot code to target disk. Bug 167222: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167222 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): FreeBSD 8.3 corrupting MBR partition table after installation Bug 168188: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168188 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8) partitioner segmentation fault Bug 168269: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168269 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: comments on bsdinstall(8) Bug 168314: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168314 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): 9.0 install "live CD" option can't create resolv.conf Bug 168582: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168582 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [request] bsdinstall(8): Select 'server' or 'desktop' at install time. Bug 169748: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169748 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] bsdinstall(8): when distfile fetch is complete on some distfiles, but not entire set, progress can go over 100%; installer gets confused with distfiles and halts Bug 169750: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169750 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): cannot run more than once with DHCP/SLAAC configured interfaces Bug 170264: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170264 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [bsdinstall] mirrorselect fails to handle patch level Bug 170707: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170707 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8) Partition editor (modify) option does not allow size changes Bug 170821: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170821 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(1): unexpected directory name in 8,3-RELEASE DVD image(s) Bug 171113: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171113 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): FreeBSD 9.1-beta1 installer refuses to partition flash medium Bug 172846: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172846 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8) - setting hostname Bug 172847: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172847 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): missing boot loader location selection (MBR, root slice/partition) Bug 172905: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172905 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): Old mirroselect file in bdsinstall Bug 173301: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173301 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: [patch] bsdinstall(8): default to SU instead of SU+J Bug 174470: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174470 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): should be fixed to work with bsdinstall distributions Bug 174471: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174471 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): does not newfs and cannot mount any non-standard partitions Bug 174472: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174472 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8) partition editor is annoying to use when partitions already exist Bug 174473: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174473 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): cannot handle some or all partitions other than / Bug 174475: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174475 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): should remember user input Bug 175730: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175730 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: Segfault in bsdinstall(8) when no disks are present Bug 182072: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182072 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8): Warning: The disc currently in the drive is either not a FreeBSD disc Bug 182935: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182935 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): Installation program interprets "dhclient already running" as an error and writes redundant data to /etc/rc.conf Bug 183929: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183929 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: sysinstall(8) keymap select emacs enhanced is actually dvorak Bug 184675: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184675 Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: Normal Hardware: Any Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Status: In Progress Resolution: Summary: bsdinstall(8): installation crashes while asking for root password From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 20:11:02 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 79F9D4DD; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-x236.google.com (mail-wi0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c05::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1D9B8F5B; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f182.google.com with SMTP id h11so2694272wiw.15 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:11:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=HyuvHF7t7/vPml/jQl+1C7w+ZjkrDPiHrG/tyDN8WCY=; b=zVNiaFbQFG8ttUI6V9OvCENVWU+FuLZPf4R5LKcnHW4jZH5eZuP9t1rMJ2HyUmVy/g LQeut+K4Oujpz1ZXJj4Rrb9of+C+9pblxDCSRQ4RP0NkPv+ulWvF9V+iPX8CyWeWdzLM Dqi+Ol5uy6q5oagsG+4Eglfaz2PrcyU/JBbmXVjN8J22FXz736NbN98RA3bV73L0jsDM i6+p7FWlzhwVgtl0QD3wwZ7alFLrvJV6qtlDNC+us6vzkSnVCfUNCr8VCPRKdYc7p5YQ DC6T6edheD1eqgJFqj52h3YUZws4yYvHZmoTsjzcoB/nEaXss8xVq7H+BgCnFoppDyg3 pldg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.81.70 with SMTP id y6mr35871758wix.6.1416946260583; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:11:00 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.194.45.199 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:11:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5470CFC3.2000806@freebsd.org> References: <546F6D79.9060909@freebsd.org> <5470CFC3.2000806@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 22:11:00 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Dangerously dedicated mode with FreeBSD 10.1 From: Rostislav Krasny To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:11:02 -0000 On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > On 11/22/14 06:15, Rostislav Krasny wrote: >> >> Unfortunately disk partitioning of bsdinstall(8) isn't precise and >> isn't informative. Disk partitioning by sysinstall(8) was much better >> in this sense. With bsdinstall(8) I don't see how much disk space is >> left unpartitioned and where. Also I don't see where partitions start >> and what are their sizes in LBA units of measurement. By default >> bsdinstall(8) offers one huge partition for the root mount and a few >> hundreds of megabytes for swap partition after the root one. If don't >> like the offered partition sizes and want to create the same >> partitions manually (with slightly different sizes) I can't do it >> because of the precision flaw. Defining the root partitions in GB >> units with a size close to the whole disk size doesn't left any free >> space for the small swap partition. And if I create a swap partition >> before the root one I get an unbootable system. > > > It isn't meant to provide partitioning at the level of detail where you are > specifying the start position in blocks. Why do you need that? If you want > that, gpart at the command line is a much better tool. You can tell > bsdinstall to use previously created partitions, of course, and you can also > specify partition sizes to arbitrary precision. If you want sub-GB > partitioning, specify the size in MB, or KB, or blocks. You are free to do > any of these things. I know that I can specify MB or KB but it doesn't help at all. bsdinstall(8) doesn't show the exact size of the disk. In my case it shows 13 GB, that is a rounded size of 26564832 sectors (26564832 * 512 bytes =~ 12.667GB). It also doesn't show how much space is left free. I wanted to divide all this disk space into one big UFS partition, one 256MB swap partition and left no free space. Partedit of the bsdinstall(8) is useless in this task. >> Another problem with bsdinstall(8) partitioning is an inability of >> using already partitioned disk. This is what I've tried first. In this >> case I was need to define the mount points of the existing partitions. >> It's easy to do (since I have a backup of my previous /etc/fstab) but >> then bsdinstall(8) didn't ask me if I want to re-format those >> partitions. Then the whole installation failed at the beginning of >> base.txz extracting (the first txz package). I'm almost sure it failed >> because it tried to extract the base.txz over existing filesystem of >> my previous FreeBSD 7.4 system. >> > It can use an already partitioned disk, which seems to be your problem here > in fact. Like the partition editor in every other OS, it assumes that if you > just specify the mount point for a partition, you don't want to erase it. > Erasing existing partitions is an extremely unfriendly thing to do. You can > re-initialize it by changing any non-mountpoint property of the partition or > from the command line. Installer should ask the user: does he want to re-format the chosen partition. Without this option the whole installation may fail, like in my case. If those partitions are system and have previous version of FreeBSD or any other OS installed on them, there is a high probability that the user really wants to re-format them. This is the usual behavior of other OS installers.