>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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