Re: Installer messes up disk slice size when activating the slice

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Ouch.  Looks like you and Jeroen hit the same bug.  The installer
    team will nail it down and I'll roll an update to the release.  This
    is definitely a bug that can't be left alone.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

:Hi all,
:
:Well done on the release.
:
:When using the 1.0 RELEASE installer on a freshly fdisk'd drive with
:more than one slice the installer changes the slice size when attempting
:to activate the slice. This resulted in overwriting slices that follow.
:I was able to reproduce the problem repeatedly, and I am wondering if
:anyone else has experienced the same problem ?
:
:Installing manually works fine.
:
:I had three slices on the drive, divided roughly ad1s1: 25% ad1s2: 25%
:and ad1s3: 50%. When using the installer on either the first or the
:second slice, the installer changes the slice size to the size of the
:last slice. In my case the slice size is changed to 50% of the disk. 
:Like most configurations, the final parition in the slice gets the
:remaining space, which ends up being a whole lot more than the original
:slice size. The resulting newfs ends up clobbering slices that follow.
:
:I was able to observe the slice size change  when the installer sets the
:partition to active.  Unfortunately I don't have the installer log, but
:if really needed I could reproduce it.
:
:Cheers...Andrew