Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:56:28 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/161926: bsdinstall(8): disk layout trouble Message-ID: <21148.1319446588@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:08:54 EST." <4EA47456.7090008@freebsd.org>
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In message <4EA47456.7090008@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn writes: >On 10/23/11 13:15, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >There's not actually too much need for them, and so they never seemed >pressing. Pressing control-C/choosing "cancel"/etc. will either skip >steps that can be returned to later (post-extraction) or return to the >beginning of the installation, which is where you already were, Let me just note that neither the overall structure nor where I would end up by pressing Ctrl-C was not even remotely obvious to this particular user. >>>> Active partition is the last one created ? >>>> There is no place I can see it ? >>>> There is no place I can change it ? >>> Active partition is the last bootable (e.g. freebsd) partition you >>> created, yes. >> That is *totally* bogus, at the very least, make it the first one. > >The UI problem is actually hard, and the correct solution without a UI >solution is non-obvious. The usual use case, where only one MBR >partition of type freebsd is added, works perfectly well. I'll try to >find a reasonable solution to this, but have very little time at the >moment -- patches would be much appreciated. The fact that is is hard to do right, seems an incredibly lousy excuse for doing something totally counter-intutive. Systems with more than one MBR partition are quite common in the wild in my experience. How about you set the active flag on whatever parition contains the / filesystem as part of final cleanup ? I'm not going to be sending patches: I solved this problem once according to the priorities at the time, you get to solve it this time :-) My input should simply count as a single old grumbling fart, and if you think he is totally out of touch, you get to ignore him. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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