Installer: no option to set geometry/corrupts partition table
randux at noreply.org
randux at noreply.org
Sat Mar 3 09:56:43 PST 2007
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
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