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.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-qa The fine folks on freebsd-qa love to fix sysinstall bugs.
Responsible Changed 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.
Responsible Changed From-To: qa->freebsd-qa Canonicalize responsible.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->brucec Take.
Responsible Changed From-To: brucec->freebsd-bugs Back to the pool.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall sysinstall PR.
sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing.