Bug 29375

Summary: sysinstall(8): disk editor gets confused by slices that are not labeled in order and writes the partition table incorrectly.
Product: Base System Reporter: quik <quik>
Component: binAssignee: freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody) <sysinstall>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description quik 2001-08-02 01:10:22 UTC 
I need to make a useable partition out of some previously allocated but unused partitions so I fired up /stand/sysinstall (which had been upgraded when I built the world some weeks ago) and ran the disk editor.
After deleting 2 exiting partitions and creating a new partition out of the free space, I tried to write the partition table.
However, in the process of deleting one of those partition (ad0s2), I caused the partitions to be out of order.
Unfortunately, when I tried to write the ptable, it tried to write the part info in the wrong order and failed.
After rebooting, the machine would not boot, saying "invalid partition table".
I had to use the sysinstall on my installation CD-ROM to fix the problem.
This keeps happening every time I try to use the /stand/sysinstall on my machine now.

How-To-Repeat: see desc.
Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-09-24 07:24:00 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa

The fine folks on freebsd-qa love to fix sysinstall bugs.
Comment 2 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-08-25 03:48:09 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-qa->qa

Use short names for mailing list to make searches    
using the web query form work with the shown responsible. 

This also makes open PRs show up in the summery mail.
Comment 3 John Baldwin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-08-02 19:39:29 UTC 
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From-To: qa->freebsd-qa

Canonicalize responsible.
Comment 4 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-03-13 00:13:24 UTC 
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From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec

Take.
Comment 5 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-01-23 20:54:00 UTC 
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From-To: brucec->freebsd-bugs

Back to the pool.
Comment 6 Bruce Cran freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-01-23 22:04:55 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall

sysinstall PR.
Comment 7 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:08:11 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.
Comment 8 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:12:24 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.