From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 23:37:57 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 14A231065676; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:37:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78658FC12; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk28 with SMTP id 28so2184711gxk.13 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:37:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ilcngIgZcA/rmYFD/kswiDr80ExhScKqtAPYMkEF3RU=; b=kmqZarGQQ8p05Q7HMxm6YZaD+V2SEv2XUEF/BUlMvhJOVYQFs9j1BkHlve77S2ZKEm 2Jph71HzqcP0/DMvrNz8QrkTwd5Br24F06U56qfT6AzYyglocJtDNt8Oy0PebGmkJRm7 THoCfYPMu+koWs5g8e06phV6/ZkcRyJhqK3nA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.156.20 with SMTP id i20mr1400688ybo.53.1313710675949; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.98.3 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:37:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:37:55 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Garrett Cooper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: FreeBSD Current , Nathan Whitehorn 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: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:37:57 -0000 On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 4:24 PM, 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 :/..). 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