Bug 167222 - sysinstall(8): FreeBSD 8.3 corrupting MBR partition table after installation
Summary: sysinstall(8): FreeBSD 8.3 corrupting MBR partition table after installation
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody)
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Reported: 2012-04-23 08:20 UTC by Faltu
Modified: 2015-11-10 09:07 UTC (History)
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Description Faltu 2012-04-23 08:20:10 UTC 
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

Fix: 

Not known
How-To-Repeat: - Boot from Ubuntu live cd
- Create 3 primary linux - ext3 partitions of 10GB each by
$sudo fdisk /dev/sda
- Boot from FreeBSD 8.3 i386
- Install FreeBSD 8.3 on the remaining space on the disk by first creating a slice in the 4th primary partition of 50GB and auto allocate the FreeBSD file system inside the slice
- Boot from Ubuntu live cd and do
$sudo fdisk /dev/sda

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
Comment 1 Andrey V. Elsukov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-04-23 10:08:55 UTC 
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
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-04-23 15:06:51 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall

Over to maintainer(s).
Comment 3 Enji Cooper freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2015-11-10 09:07:41 UTC 
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.