bin/164094: bsdinstall(8): installer progress over 100%

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 14 01:49:18 UTC 2012


On 01/13/12 19:16, eadler at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>  Old Synopsis: installer progress over 100% New Synopsis:
>  bsdinstall(8): installer progress over 100%
>
>  Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall
>  Responsible-Changed-By: eadler Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Jan 14
>  01:15:02 UTC 2012 Responsible-Changed-Why: assign and fix synopsis
>


> FreeBSD installer changed my MBR-only partition table to MBR+GPT 
> partition table.
>
> The other OS does not have GPT logic; I want to be at least warned 
> this is happening and prefer to have the option at least. 
> Alternatively, the installer may opt not to install a GPT if the disk 
> does not require it (as in the case in this machine)

Can you give some more details here? This is something that the 
installer is not programmed to do and that I cannot reproduce.
-Nathan


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