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

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

The following reply was made to PR misc/167222; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae at FreeBSD.org>
To: Faltu <faltuemail0 at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/167222: FreeBSD 8.3 corrupting MBR partition table after
 installation
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:08:55 +0400

 On 23.04.2012 11:18, Faltu wrote:
 > 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
 
 As i see there are two identical MBR and FreeBSD did nothing bad.
 Probably you have changed disk geometry in the installer and after that
 you got what you see.
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov