Issue #572 has been updated by tuxillo. Description updated Status changed from New to In Progress Assignee deleted (0)
Hi, Is this still relevant? >From what I could read, the whole point was being able to specify geometry for >a disk on the installer. I don't know whether it would be worthy nowadays. Cheers, Antonio Huete ---------------------------------------- Bug #572: Installer: no option to set geometry/corrupts partition table http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/572 Author: randux Status: In Progress Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: Target version: 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 -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/my/account
