DragonFly bugs List (threaded) for 2007-03
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Installer: no option to set geometry/corrupts partition table


From: randux@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:56:43 +0200

Hi guys,

I installed the 1.8.0 release from the liveCD and it screwed up my partition table. How can I set the drive geometry so that the installer will use my c/h/s values instead of the (possibly incorrect) values said to be obtained from BIOS?

I noticed this problem in FreeBSD but it seems to have been mitigated by the installer offering a "G" option to set drive geometry around 6.1/6.2 release, not sure exactly when.

I posted a question on the users list on Feb. 26 but hearing nothing (and wanting to install Dfly 1.8.0 release) I am posting here on bugs. Someone with a multiboot setup who doesn't track changes to his partition table can suffer loss of data because of this error. It could be a relatively serious problem, especially for newbies to multibooting as symptoms probably won't appear immediately, it will be difficult to diagnose.

Thanks,
Rand



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