From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 12:45:56 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 310021065701; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:45:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [128.104.255.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95DE8FC0C; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:45:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3E8582DB; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:45:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at icecube.wisc.edu Received: from mail.icecube.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (trout.icecube.wisc.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10030) with ESMTP id Hp2gPuwECnEA; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:45:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-70-152.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.70.152]) by mail.icecube.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A992F582D9; Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:45:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <4E5E2D01.3000400@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:45:53 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Voras References: <4E5CEF79.7070508@freebsd.org> <4E5D82FC.2020909@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 9-beta1 installer - partition editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:45:56 -0000 On 08/31/11 05:19, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 31/08/2011 02:40, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> On 08/30/11 19:07, Ivan Voras wrote: > > >>> It was a plain install on a RAID volume which appears as ordinary da0 >>> drive. I did do a couple of start-overs so it could be that some state >>> got lost. It definitely did NOT show mount points in the dialog which >>> lists newly created partitions. >>> >> >> Which partitioning scheme did you use? How did you lay out the >> partitions? > > I did not deviate from defaults until the partition editor, where I > deleted existing partitions (Linux) and tried to create new ones. > > So, it's a MBR scheme, and I intended to create three partitions, for > "/", for "/srv" and a swap partition. I think Andrey's idea about what > went wrong with the swap partition is most probably correct, so this > only leaves the inability to register mount points with the partitions. > > However, if as Brandon suggested this is already fixed, don't bother. > I'll try the BETA2 when ISOs become available and will post screenshots > (IPMI) if it fails again. > The help text for straight MBR partitioning (which has never worked for FreeBSD) has been modified for BETA2 to suggest "freebsd" (which has always been the default) instead of "freebsd-ufs" etc. It does let you set mountpoints, and displays them, and always has, but not for bsdlabel container partitions (MBR type "freebsd"), since they aren't filesystems. Is this what you were trying to do? -Nathan