https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232845
Bug ID: 232845
Summary: Better support for MBR partition requested in FreeBSD
installer
Product: Base System
Version: 10.4-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: kern
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
I think there is a problem with the FreeBSD installer which can only be sorted
out by reworking its opening stages.
For MBR users, FreeBSD installer enforces a mandatory slice which has to be
nested containing at least one partition (for /).
This is wrong. Let's say the user wants to install FreeBSD on ada0s3.
The user should instead be getting prompted :
a) Do you want to set up a FreeBSD slice in the chosen primary partition ? Or,
b) Do you want to the entire chosen primary partition to serve as / ?
In case of a), the installer should work as it currently does already - setting
up / (UFS) on ada0s3a.
In case of b), the installer should set up / (UFS) on ada0s3 (not ada0s3a).
In case of b), if the user needs any extra filesystems, those can be found in
the EBR, just as with Linux. Generally, FreeBSD should move away from the BSD
nesting schema in the coming times, offering it only as an option. I would like
UFS to work under MBR just as it does under GPT - unnested.
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