20040531 Build issues

[Muthu_T at Dell.com]

Marcel,

	I had installed the new snapshot on DELL PE3250.

As Arun Sharma told, it has following issues:

1.  sysinstall corrupts the GPT partition after an install. 
    Even if no changes were made (seems to convert it to msdos label
type).

2.  On a brand new blank disk, sysinstall has problems creating 3
partitions 
    manually - EFI, swap, UFS. (Error message: Write to da0 failed)

3.  Selecting "auto partition", followed by some customizations 
    (remove /tmp, /var) seems to confuse sysinstall. It still created 2
extra 
    partitions, and installed FreeBSD in the wrong partition (size
256MB). 
    Causing the filesystem to be full.

4.  sysinstall corrupts existing Linux/M$ partitions.

One more issue is the new snapshot, doesn't write EFI partition to disk.
(Already somebody raised this one in this list.) Due to this I had
installed the
FreeBSD, but couldn't boot it via 'Boot Maintanence menu'-> 'Boot From
File' entry.
EFI couldn't identify the EFI partition. 

Any one faced this issue? In the old snapshot it creates EFI without any
problem(in the Auto partition mode).

BTW, Whenever I try to install Win2K3 on PE3250, it asks to delete the
partition after the EFI partition
In order to create MSR Partition(named MSUtil). So I have to delete the
swap partition for this.
Is there any other way to solve this? If we can solve the issue 4, then
we can install M$ first then FreeBSD, Linux next.

Thanks.
--T. Muthu Mohan.