misc/167222: FreeBSD 8.3 corrupting MBR partition table after installation

Faltu faltuemail0 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 23 07:20:10 UTC 2012


>Number:         167222
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD 8.3 corrupting MBR partition table after installation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 23 07:20:10 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Faltu
>Release:        8.3
>Organization:
Hobbist
>Environment:
>Description:
Before installation screenshot from ubuntu live CD

http://i.imgur.com/YIlpA.png

After installation screenshot from ubuntu live CD

http://i.imgur.com/AJm8B.png
>How-To-Repeat:
- Boot from Ubuntu live cd
- Create 3 primary linux - ext3 partitions of 10GB each by
$sudo fdisk /dev/sda
- Boot from FreeBSD 8.3 i386
- Install FreeBSD 8.3 on the remaining space on the disk by first creating a slice in the 4th primary partition of 50GB and auto allocate the FreeBSD file system inside the slice
- Boot from Ubuntu live cd and do
$sudo fdisk /dev/sda

The whole partition table has been messed up by FreeBSD installer as shown in the following screenshots :

Before installation screenshot from ubuntu live CD
http://i.imgur.com/YIlpA.png

After installation screenshot from ubuntu live CD
http://i.imgur.com/AJm8B.png
>Fix:
Not known

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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