>Number: 185449 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Installer creates multiple freebsd-boot partitions >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Jan 03 16:50:00 UTC 2014 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Peter K >Release: 10.0-RC4 >Organization: >Environment: 10.0-RC4 FreeBSD 10.0-RC4 #0 r260130: Tue Dec 31 17:10:01 UTC 2013 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >Description: :#gpart show ada0 => 34 3907029101 ada0 GPT (1.8T) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 8388608 2 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 8388770 20971520 3 freebsd-swap (10G) 29360290 3877668844 4 freebsd-ufs (1.8T) 3907029134 1 - free - (512B)
ada0p2 had FreeBSD 9 amd64 on it, installing FreeBSD 10 RC4 amd64 to ada0p2 ada0p4 is my 'data' partition left untouched. During install if I delete my OS partition [ada0p2], then create partition, the installer complains that I'm missing freebsd-boot even though ada0p1 is never touched - I have two options, let it create or "ignore"; If I say create, then I have two 'freebsd-boot' partitions If I say ignore, I did not test of it will still use the original 'ada0p1' freebsd-boot partition, but there should still be no error. I had to delete both ada0p1 and ada0p2, and then the installer correctly created freebsd-boot on ada0p1 and freebsd-ufs on ada0p2. Any way to get the installer to detect an already existing freebsd-boot partition to use? This threw me off for a second only, but I can see where many will say 'create' and will have a new freebsd-boot partition created on each reinstall. >How-To-Repeat: Start install on an already existing system using GPT. Delete only partition where you want to install, create new partition. >Fix: Installer should detect if 'freebsd-boot' partition already exists and use that [?] >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
