Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 16:33:55 GMT From: Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> To: fbsd_user@a1poweruser.com, delphij@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org, delphij@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/71538: [install] multi-homed install trashes existing system & Freebsd will not boot [5.3beta3] Message-ID: <200409161633.i8GGXtNM033861@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: [install] multi-homed install trashes existing system & Freebsd will not boot [5.3beta3] State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed State-Changed-By: delphij State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 16 16:22:07 GMT 2004 State-Changed-Why: Dear submitter, I am really sorry to hear that your existing system were destoried. With an similiar installation I was unable to reproduce your issue, did you marked two "bootable" partition during FreeBSD installation (say, two "A"s during you are creating the FreeBSD partition)? More technically: I have heard some complaints that when installing FreeBSD on a multi-boot configuration and mark two "bootable" partitions then system will go unbootable. This is because that the "bootable" flag is actually "activate" flags on partitions, which is only allowed on one partition or the partition table would be considered to be invalid. With a safebelt introduced in src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c,v 1.153 it's more likely that users wouldn't set two "active" partition at the same time, so if this was your problem, then we would likely to have an improved sysinstall(8) that won't cause an unbootable system. Please let me know if this is the issue so we can take more action on it, and thanks for supporting the release engineering of the upcoming 5.3-RELEASE! Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->delphij Responsible-Changed-By: delphij Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Sep 16 16:22:07 GMT 2004 Responsible-Changed-Why: Dear submitter, I am really sorry to hear that your existing system were destoried. With an similiar installation I was unable to reproduce your issue, did you marked two "bootable" partition during FreeBSD installation (say, two "A"s during you are creating the FreeBSD partition)? More technically: I have heard some complaints that when installing FreeBSD on a multi-boot configuration and mark two "bootable" partitions then system will go unbootable. This is because that the "bootable" flag is actually "activate" flags on partitions, which is only allowed on one partition or the partition table would be considered to be invalid. With a safebelt introduced in src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c,v 1.153 it's more likely that users wouldn't set two "active" partition at the same time, so if this was your problem, then we would likely to have an improved sysinstall(8) that won't cause an unbootable system. Please let me know if this is the issue so we can take more action on it, and thanks for supporting the release engineering of the upcoming 5.3-RELEASE! http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71538
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