On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 06:07:48PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> I now see from the source that the mysterious "install" flag should only
> be set on one partition (though I'm still not quite sure exactly what
> it's supposed to mean, except that this is to be the root filesystem,
> though why it
At Mon, 08 Jun 2020 16:42:42 -0700, "Greg A. Woods" wrote:
Subject: sysinst extended partitioning won't set/do the "newfs" flag!
>
> I'm having trouble getting the "new" sysinst, when using extended
> partitioning, to set the "newfs" flag (and t
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 at 05:32, Martin Husemann wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > What magic am I missing, or is this a bug?
>
> A bug, probably related to not using MBR on xen devices (but most other x86
> code expecting disklabel inside MBR). It worked
On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> What magic am I missing, or is this a bug?
A bug, probably related to not using MBR on xen devices (but most other x86
code expecting disklabel inside MBR). It worked (last I tested) in the
default partition editor, not sure what
I'm testing my latest -current build (from 9.99.64, sources about a week
old now), on an amd64 Xen domU.
I'm having trouble getting the "new" sysinst, when using extended
partitioning, to set the "newfs" flag (and the "-o log" flag).
I can set it, but it never sticks and never happens, which
