2016-08-26 19:22 GMT+02:00 Ali Farzanrad <temp+...@frad.ir>: > Stuart Henderson wrotes: > >>On 2016-08-24, Bertram Scharpf <li...@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote: >>> The installers partitioning tool didn't offer me a variant >>> that keeps my existing partitions. >> >>If you wanted to try it again, when it asks "Use (W)hole disk or >>(E)dit the MBR?", choose E. >> >>It doesn't exactly hold your hand every step of the way, but >>what could be clearer than "Use whole disk"? >> > > The installer has 2 different steps to partitioning your disk. > At first ("Use (W)hole disk MBR, whole disk (G)PT or (E)dit?") it uses > fdisk(8) and after this step it will overwrites your partition table. > > The next step ("Use (A)uto layout, (E)dit auto layout, or create (C)ustom > layout?") could not recover you partition table from previous step even by > pressing Ctrl+C. >
I'm pretty sure that the OpenBSD layout have *nothing* to do with what is written in the MBR or GPT. That's why the partition table is lost when the installer is asking about the layout. You told him to use the whole disk. -- Cordialement, Coues Ludovic +336 148 743 42