From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 21 21:34:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE8E106566B for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:34:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from argol.doit.wisc.edu (argol.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D278FC13 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:34:07 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LQA00300RWVID00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:34:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.68.180]) by smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LQA002CZRWTLM00@smtpauth3.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:34:06 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:34:05 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: Garrett Cooper Message-id: <4E5179CD.5040303@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.8.21.212414, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 References: <4E4DA33E.6070103@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110819 Thunderbird/6.0 Cc: Matt , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:34:08 -0000 On 08/21/11 15:53, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Matt wrote: >> On 08/18/11 16:24, Garrett Cooper wrote: >>> So, I used the bsdinstaller again on the 9.0-BETA1 media with manual >>> partitioning. The HP desktop ate up 3 partitions, I inconveniently >>> forgot that geom can't grok secondary PC MBR partitions, was fooling >>> around and cleared the partitions, etc. I hit abort to exit the >>> partitioner start and from scratch and now my Windows partitions and >>> recovery partitions are gone. >>> >>> So, oops... just a word of warning for anyone else that monkeys around >>> with bsdinstall that it doesn't always hold true to the "will apply >>> changes at Exit" guarantee right now (i.e. atomicity is busted). If >>> someone else has a second OS that they'd rather not lose, at least >>> they will know to reboot their box when committing changes. >>> >>> I'll inspect the code sometime this weekend to trace down the annoying >>> bug, but this is probably release gating for new users (and sadly >>> forces me back to wanting to use sysinstall :/..). >> Geom can do EBR ("Logical") etc...and definitely can do all 4 primary >> partitions...some of that requires kernel options I think though. >> I think that's what you're referring to? > bsdinstall doesn't talk EBR yet though. > That isn't actually true. You can't install to EBR (due to bootloader limitations), but it can see and manipulate it. -Nathan