From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 23:41:50 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 64DC6106566B for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:41:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sendtomatt@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D3C8FC23 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:41:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so2577248vws.13 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:41:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KuDdHJX/x/pIfDH0tmpURYdDKRs0xkczkb0AXGTpKY4=; b=lE/nKcoO8Ntn/LMTjBVbX+NNbMaej8rmip0GHr0IJ9W/9K6pyeT0Vws++ePrNJJ3DV JeKV9SXAU9+LkxnJp5p/s3dq/xJDGWEOYVak14z1Njx/e9Qq0e5v9jKNStw8rUkK3Xnf fl0pkrB1K+JoIQ2C64mcnvbeHnyjXDjd50ELM= Received: by 10.142.127.3 with SMTP id z3mr696716wfc.299.1313710908669; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.local (adsl-67-118-230-86.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [67.118.230.86]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c8sm1842761pbi.75.2011.08.18.16.41.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E4DA33E.6070103@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:41:50 -0700 From: Matt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110716 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 23:41:50 -0000 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 :/..). > > Thanks, > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 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? Also, if you haven't overwritten the actual *data*, just the mbr, there may still be hope see testdisk in ports? I've never used it though. Maybe dd backup whole disk first? My guess is you just smashed the MBR/partition table and need it fixed. Maybe you don't need windows anymore subconsciously? RDP & VirtualBox work fine for me :) Matt