misc/168269: bsdinstall

[Irakli M]

>Number:         168269
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       bsdinstall
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 23 18:40:01 UTC 2012
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Irakli M
>Release:        9.0 Release
>Organization:
home
>Environment:
FreeBSD proxy.tsu.ge 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Mar 27 01:58:06 GET 2012     irakli at proxy.tsu.ge:/sys/amd64/compile/BZD  amd64

>Description:
not actually problem but some recommendation I think.

1.
is tradition naming of partitions still actual ?
a - /
b - swap
c - entire slice
d,e,f... - other partitions in bsd slice

when I use bsdinstall and create partitions (MBR),
 names generated a,b,d,... is / first or not it doesn't matter.
is it correct to label partitions or need to add some checks in bsdinstall 
(mount name checks and assign to partition naming scheme) 
before bsdinstall commits and runs gpart?


2.
if first partition isn't /
FreeBSD installs but don't load (stops at boot2 prompt)
is it loaders problem? I red that loader cant load kernel above 1024 cylinder

> all the information necessary to boot FreeBSD must be
 > located within the first 1,024 cylinders of the hard disk. This is necessary
> for the FreeBSD boot manager to work;

can you add some warning in bsdinstall, if it occurs, 
for that the user does not have to reinstall the system :)


3.
freebsd-boot partition automatically create before / (GPT partition editor), 
but if first partition is not /, freebsd-boot partition isn't first and system
doesn't boot. please modify code for it, 
 don't add freebsd-boot before /, add explicitly first partition in slice
thanks and sorry for my English :)

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