Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 09:56:45 GMT From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: conf/161926: 9.0-RC1 bsdinstall disk layout trouble Message-ID: <201110230956.p9N9ujk8006352@critter.freebsd.dk> Resent-Message-ID: <201110231020.p9NAK1RN053504@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 161926 >Category: conf >Synopsis: 9.0-RC1 bsdinstall disk layout trouble >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 23 10:20:01 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Poul-Henning Kamp >Release: FreeBSD 9.0-RC1 amd64 >Organization: >Environment: Trying to install 9.0-RC1 amd64 >Description: I tried to install a machine for use with src/tools/sysbuild, and ran into a number of weird issues. Here is a blow by blow account: ada0 zeroed before boot boot dvd Choose "Install" Keymap Selection -> No "non-default key mapping" ??? What kind of question is that ? Guided disk Hmm, maybe I should use the manual option, lets see, where is the "back" button ? Ohh, there are *no* "back" buttons *anywhere* ? Partition ada0 Modify "Invalid argument. arg0 'ada0' MBR Create 10GB Create 10GB Create 10GB Create default size Active partition is the last one created ? There is no place I can see it ? There is no place I can change it ? ada0s1 Modify "Invalid argument. arg0 'ada0s1' BSD Create (ada0s1a) freebsd, full size, / Finish Enter shell in new system gpart set -a active -i 1 ada0 Fix the active partition sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 gmirror label root ada0 Fix /etc/fstab ? There is no /etc/fstab ? Create /etc/fstab: /dev/mirror/roots1a / ufs rw 1 1 boot0cfg -B /dev/ada0 reboot Comes up /etc/fstab now contains ada0s1a ? fix /etc/fstab add geom_mirror_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf reboot Comes up >How-To-Repeat: Per above. I tried once before with a disk which contained a Ubuntu installation, there I ended up with partition 2 having size of "-37GB" on a 40GB drive. >Fix: At the very least, show people what's going on. And for goodness sake, add "Back" buttons, OK ? You really don't want me to write sysinstall2, right ? :-) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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