From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 10 15:53:48 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06A8EE10 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:53:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chukcha.pknet.net (chukcha.pknet.net [206.125.170.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09C516F5 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:53:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by chukcha.pknet.net (Postfix, from userid 26) id 9D5CB7CA2B; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:44:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from webmail.pknet.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chukcha.pknet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B69E7C5B4 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:44:34 -0700 (MST) Received: from 67.96.215.67 (SquirrelMail authenticated user fbsdq@peterk.org) by webmail.pknet.net with HTTP; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:44:34 -0700 Message-ID: <6f6b2a9b3dc9b7c8acccc9f67e4dc31b.squirrel@webmail.pknet.net> In-Reply-To: <20140109161818.GK64543@glenbarber.us> References: <20140109161818.GK64543@glenbarber.us> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:44:34 -0700 Subject: FreeBSD 10.0-RC5 - Installer creates multiple freebsd-boot partitions From: "Peter" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-DSPAM-Result: Innocent X-DSPAM-Processed: Fri Jan 10 08:44:34 2014 X-DSPAM-Confidence: 0.9979 X-DSPAM-Probability: 0.0000 X-DSPAM-Signature: 52d01562740256165813150 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:53:48 -0000 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=185449 :#gpart show ada0 => 34 3907029101 ada0 GPT (1.8T) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 8388608 2 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 8388770 20971520 3 freebsd-swap (10G) 29360290 3877668844 4 freebsd-ufs (1.8T) 3907029134 1 - free - (512B) ada0p2 had FreeBSD 9 amd64 on it, installing FreeBSD 10 RC5 amd64 to ada0p2 ada0p4 is my 'data' partition left untouched. During install if I delete my OS partition [ada0p2], then create partition, the installer complains that I'm missing freebsd-boot even though ada0p1 is never touched - I have two options, let it create or "ignore"; If I say create, then I have two 'freebsd-boot' partitions If I say ignore [virtualbox fresh 10-RC4 -> 10-RC5] it still boots properly. I had to delete both ada0p1 and ada0p2, and then the installer correctly created freebsd-boot on ada0p1 and freebsd-ufs on ada0p2. Any way to get the installer to detect an already existing freebsd-boot partition to use? This threw me off for a second only, but I can see where many will say 'create' and will have a new freebsd-boot partition created on each reinstall.