Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:59:37 GMT From: Brian R Jones <bjones@castlejones.net> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/148253: sysinstall partition=<SIZE> creates invalid partition type Message-ID: <201006300259.o5U2xbKR047449@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201006300300.o5U30GJd075971@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 148253
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: sysinstall partition=<SIZE> creates invalid partition type
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 30 03:00:16 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Brian R Jones
>Release: 8.0-RELEASE-amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD brj1-dbg.alacritech.com 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
when using sysinstall for automated install (using install.cfg), or from command line, the partition=<SIZE> option of diskPartitionEditor creates a partition of type 0x03 instead of 0xa5.
The command line problem is no big deal, as fdisk can be used, but for jumpstart,
It's an absolute PITA.
>How-To-Repeat:
easiest to demo from command line:
Start by erasing all of MBR
[brj1-sut]atkstat# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8 bs=512 count=64
then use sysinstal to create partition
[brj1-sut]atkstat# sysinstall debug=YES nonInteractive=YES disk=ad8 \
partition=100G bootManager=boot diskPartitionEditor diskPartitionWrite
and use fdisk to view result
[brj1-sut]atkstat# fdisk /dev/ad8
******* Working on device /dev/ad8 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=969021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 3 (0x03),(XENIX /usr file system)
start 63, size 209714337 (102399 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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