From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 01:17:30 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 CBC54106566C for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:17:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F338FC0A for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:17:30 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LQ500E00I95BD00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:17:29 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [76.210.68.180]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LQ500D9WI94E800@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:17:29 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:17:27 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-id: <4E4DB9A7.4040404@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-10, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.8.19.10315, SenderIP=76.210.68.180 References: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110704 Thunderbird/5.0 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: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 01:17:30 -0000 On 08/18/11 18:24, 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 :/..). > There are only a couple of cases when it does that, and it gives you a giant warning in all capital letters to ask if you really want to proceed. One of those cases can be changing partitioning type. Can you elaborate on how you made this happen? -Nathan