Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:42:24 +0100 From: Ariane van der Steldt <ariane@stack.nl> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, eadler@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/164094: bsdinstall(8): installer progress over 100% Message-ID: <20120114064224.GA66588@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <4F10DF18.9020703@freebsd.org> References: <201201140116.q0E1Gj7E055563@freefall.freebsd.org> <4F10DF18.9020703@freebsd.org>
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Hi Nathan,
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:49:12PM -0600, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 01/13/12 19:16, eadler@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > Old Synopsis: installer progress over 100% New Synopsis:
> > bsdinstall(8): installer progress over 100%
First of all my apologies for providing the wrong synopsis and most
likely leading to some confusion (I know I was confused).
> > Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall
> > Responsible-Changed-By: eadler Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jan 14
> > 01:15:02 UTC 2012 Responsible-Changed-Why: assign and fix synopsis
> >
>
>
> > FreeBSD installer changed my MBR-only partition table to MBR+GPT
> > partition table.
I'd suggest using the above as the synopsis. :)
> > The other OS does not have GPT logic; I want to be at least warned
> > this is happening and prefer to have the option at least.
> > Alternatively, the installer may opt not to install a GPT if the disk
> > does not require it (as in the case in this machine)
>
> Can you give some more details here? This is something that the
> installer is not programmed to do and that I cannot reproduce.
Sure. I used a VM to reproduce the problem, so I could provide pretty
screenshots in an attempt to better explain the problem.
Pre-install:
only 1 OS installed, windows XP, using MBR partition table.
Using a live CD, I can instruct fdisk to (pointlessly) alter the active
partition, as can be seen in attached screenshot 1
Post-install:
Both windows XP and FreeBSD are installed.
Unfortunately, fdisk can no longer be used to alter the active
partition, gpart is to be used instead.
As can be seen in attached screenshot 2, fdisk fails.
After install, only gpart can be used to change the active partition.
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Ariane
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