[DragonFlyBSD - Bug #572] (Closed) Installer: no option to set geometry/corrupts partition table

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Issue #572 has been updated by tuxillo.

Description updated
Category set to installer
Status changed from In Progress to Closed
Assignee set to corecode
% Done changed from 0 to 100

Irrelevant as of today.

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Bug #572: Installer: no option to set geometry/corrupts partition table
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/572#change-14354

* Author: randux
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: corecode
* Category: installer
* Target version: 6.4
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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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