From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 15:26:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECF716A50C for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from myst@tut.by) Received: from tut.by (speedy.tutby.com [195.137.160.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8510543D4C for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:26:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from myst@tut.by) Received: from [65.200.107.1] (account myst HELO [10.21.48.254]) by tut.by (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.8) with ESMTPA id 61661127; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:25:57 +0300 Message-ID: <446B4084.5000903@tut.by> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:25:56 +0300 From: Stas Myasnikov User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maslan References: <319cceca0605170643u4b407a2fg9c2d60f6c8c1ddb4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <319cceca0605170643u4b407a2fg9c2d60f6c8c1ddb4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall sucks 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, 17 May 2006 15:26:06 -0000 Hello, > I was updating my system from 5.4 to 6.1, i did a fresh install, but > after sysinstall finishes it had damaged the MBR. (1) > I have 1 ext3 partitions and 2 ufs partitions, one for dfly and the > other for fbsd. > The other thing that during the installation i wanted to repartition, > but when i click partitioning, sysintall catch a signal and terminate, Strange enough, since sysinstall writes to disk ONLY after you set all options and press YES. BTW at (1) you write that sysinstall had finished before your MBR was wiped out. So did sysinstall finish, or it catch the some signal? Stas