On 10/24/11 03:56, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
In message<4ea47456.7090...@freebsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn writes:
On 10/23/11 13:15, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
There's not actually too much need for them, and so they never seemed
pressing. Pressing control-C/choosing "cancel"/etc. will either skip
steps that can be returned to later (post-extraction) or return to the
beginning of the installation, which is where you already were,
Let me just note that neither the overall structure nor where I would
end up by pressing Ctrl-C was not even remotely obvious to this
particular user.
Well, that can probably be improved. Robert Bonomi's suggestion was very
good as well, and I'll see what can be done there. There are a few
related things, as well.
Active partition is the last one created ?
There is no place I can see it ?
There is no place I can change it ?
Active partition is the last bootable (e.g. freebsd) partition you
created, yes.
That is *totally* bogus, at the very least, make it the first one.
The UI problem is actually hard, and the correct solution without a UI
solution is non-obvious. The usual use case, where only one MBR
partition of type freebsd is added, works perfectly well. I'll try to
find a reasonable solution to this, but have very little time at the
moment -- patches would be much appreciated.
The fact that is is hard to do right, seems an incredibly lousy
excuse for doing something totally counter-intutive.
Well, I didn't find it counterintuitive, but it is a lousy excuse.
Systems with more than one MBR partition are quite common in the
wild in my experience.
But more than one FreeBSD MBR partition, with a label inside it?
How about you set the active flag on whatever parition contains the
/ filesystem as part of final cleanup ?
I'm not going to be sending patches: I solved this problem once
according to the priorities at the time, you get to solve it this
time :-)
My input should simply count as a single old grumbling fart, and
if you think he is totally out of touch, you get to ignore him.
Well, you're a grumbling old fart who's usually right. The behavior
right now is that any sub-partitioning that you do in the installer gets
marked active. It's a little more complicated to turn the install
bootcode flag on only if a sub-partition is root, but not much, so that
sounds like a good solution.
-Nathan
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