Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:37:55 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Well, there goes Windows! Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tNvcuYjRRA=UG6DOKS7JYqo-0D5UR5JC=4Nh-PPJoHFg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGH67wRFP9nFQLr0Gh-h4rKWrndZSy=6Q%2BKLC_U5Fg4RD%2BJMCw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGH67wRFP9nFQLr0Gh-h4rKWrndZSy=6Q%2BKLC_U5Fg4RD%2BJMCw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> 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 :/..).
Whoa! It certainly should NOT do that! I had the opposite issue of it
not touching the disk when I thought it should have. And gpart
certainly grokked my MBR setup as I installed Beta1 in an existing
slice of an MBR disk. All 3 of my windows partitions are fine and
Windows 7 boots the same as always. It certainly never tried writing
anything until I selected the poorly named "Save" option.
rogue> gpart show ada0
=> 63 625142385 ada0 MBR (298G)
63 1985 - free - (992k)
2048 2457600 1 ntfs (1.2G)
2459648 221272064 2 ntfs (105G)
223731712 368639963 3 freebsd (175G)
592371675 37 - free - (18k)
592371712 32768000 4 ntfs (15G)
625139712 2736 - free - (1.3M)
I will admit that the documentation for gpart leaves out a few
details. (E.g. it fails
to even mention the NTFS or FAT32 partitions, although they are in the code.)
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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