From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 9 12:28:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2886A106566B for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:28:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michael.ross@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A05E58FC13 for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2011 12:28:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Jan 2011 12:28:53 -0000 Received: from dslb-178-003-208-218.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO michael-think) [178.3.208.218] by mail.gmx.net (mp049) with SMTP; 09 Jan 2011 13:28:53 +0100 X-Authenticated: #11429267 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/Gjp0WaAnGUosCzyaGn+BuAmDiXYpUbUOzKV/O8T Osb1J9PlRg7ohI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "Nathan Whitehorn" References: <4D28EB32.9090807@freebsd.org> <4D2949C5.2060001@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 13:28:51 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Michael Ross" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4D2949C5.2060001@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall ISO images X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 12:28:56 -0000 Am 09.01.2011, 06:38 Uhr, schrieb Nathan Whitehorn : > On 01/08/11 20:18, Michael Ross wrote: >> Some quick results from toying around, mainly in the partition editor: >> >> - I can't delete slices. Ever. "Device busy" >> >> - I can't delete partitions ("Device busy") once they have been >> accessed, e.g. after interrupting the installation process ("Finished" >> Ctrl-C "Restart") > > Right, you can't delete currently mounted partitions, and partedit isn't > smart enough to unmount them first. I hadn't thought about this problem > -- thanks for the report. > >> - Sometimes "Finished" shows the "You have cancelled... Restart?"-Dialog >> right away. Not sure how to reproduce. > > That should very much never happen, unless you press "Don't save". I'd > love to know how you got this to happen, if you manage to reproduce it > in the future. Press "Finished" without having specified ``/'' as a mountpoint on any partition. More, once I do this, I can't change the mount point anymore. Step-by-Step: 1. Create da0s1, da0s1a. No mount point specified. Select "Finished". Result: "Abort - you have cancelled... Restart?" Select Restart. 2. "Edit" mount point on da0s1a to /. Select "Finished". Result: A error dialog pops up: "mount operation not permitted". >> - "Add Partition"-Dialog: >> Having to change between Tab- and Cursor-Keys to navigate this dialog >> confuses me. I keep pressing Tab to go to the next field. >> Shift-Tab closes the dialog entirely instead of navigating backwards. >> "Label" has to be left blank, else "Invalid value". (plus, the >> errormessage could indicate which of the values is invalid) > > The Tab issue is a just a difference between the new dialog this uses > and the current system dialog. I'll see if it's possible to change. Having ESC work would be nice, too. > The label thing is trickier. The "Invalid value" comes out of the kernel > when trying to set a label on a partition scheme that does not support > them, and the kernel does not provide useful information on the problem > (e.g. which field was invalid). The partition editor has to have > intimate knowledge of the partition schemes to fix this. I may be unclear on the terminology. I expected "label" to be a geom-label-label, i.e. I have da0 MBR da0s1 BSD da0s1a freebsd-ufs so I could label da0s1a as I could with glabel. >> - Adding additional users: >> Crtl-C here cancels the whole installation process? After reboot: >> First try: No mountroot, but system boots after specifying manually. >> Second try (after installation from scratch): No mountroot, no >> /etc/fstab on disk. > > Most of the steps are set to cancel the whole process if you Cntrl-C. > That should probably not be the case as soon as it has finished > unpacking the system. Can you provide details on how you configured your > system that resulted in no /etc/fstab? Did you see the "Installation > Complete" dialog? How to not have /etc/fstab: Install, answer "yes" to "Add users?", press Ctrl-C when adduser asks for username. End up at login prompt of liveCD. No "Installation Complete"-Dialog. Other issue: I tried "GPT" for da0, wrote to disk ("Finished"), but did not actually installing anything. Changed back to "MBR". Installed alright, but booting fails with "FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE" I reboot into the installer, partition editor shows da0 MBR and nothing else for da0. Select da0, "Create", "OK" -> Popup "File exists: geom da0s1" -> Question "Select Partition scheme" -> "Cancel" Now partition editor shows da0 MBR da0s1 BSD da0s1a freebsd-ufs Can install, but still "FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE". Couldn't figure out how to get around this short of re-initializing the HD (VirtualBox, so no trouble there). > Thank you very much for testing this! > -Nathan Well, thanks for giving me something to test :-) Michael