Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:34:05 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: Matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! Message-ID: <4E5179CD.5040303@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRcrRciORbaMh-WK2RadaP_g5hxPVQ6unv7-4Vwr_9R1A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGH67wRFP9nFQLr0Gh-h4rKWrndZSy=6Q%2BKLC_U5Fg4RD%2BJMCw@mail.gmail.com> <4E4DA33E.6070103@gmail.com> <CAGH67wRcrRciORbaMh-WK2RadaP_g5hxPVQ6unv7-4Vwr_9R1A@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/21/11 15:53, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Matt<sendtomatt@gmail.com> 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
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