Re: gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-20 Thread void
On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 04:39:02PM +0300, Antony Uspensky wrote: If I remember correctly, installer offers MBR on BIOS environment, and GPT on UEFI. Try run your vm as UEFI machine. A. That's interesting. I guess vmrun.sh is 'BIOS' in this context. The host runs other VMs for other OS guest

Re: gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-20 Thread Antony Uspensky
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, void wrote: Just checked - FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso installer still automatically goes to MBR, one has to select GPT when installing auto-ufs. Might be an idea to change the default to GPT if that's what FreeBSD would like to promote? i have no idea how I'd do t

Re: gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-18 Thread void
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 06:15:25PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: Wierd. All the installs I've done in the last what feels like a decade have defaulted to GPT. Are you installing onto media that's pre-formatted with MBR? Nope. I install to an empty image created like this: # truncate -s 64G vmimag

Re: gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM void wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 01:18:20PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > (snip) > > Just checked - FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso installer still > automatically goes to MBR, one has to select GPT when installing auto-ufs. > > Might be an idea to change

Re: gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-18 Thread void
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 01:18:20PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: (snip) Just checked - FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso installer still automatically goes to MBR, one has to select GPT when installing auto-ufs. Might be an idea to change the default to GPT if that's what FreeBSD would like to p

Re: gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-18 Thread void
Hi, On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, at 20:18, Warner Losh wrote: > It's expected. > > First, I'd skip using MBR. It's super limited, kinda hard and uses > weird things. Using > GPT will just work. MBR should generally only be used for legacy uses, > but it should all > work, once you do it correctly. The

Re: gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM void wrote: > Hi, > > context is freebsd 14.2-releng vm (amd64) that has been upgraded with > freebsd-update from 13.4. > > Decided to add another disk so invoking the vm looks like this: > > # sh vmrun.sh -c 4 -m 16G -t tap2 -d ./vm.img -d ./disk1.img vmname > >

gpart -t option incorrect in manpages (14.2-RELENG)

2025-01-18 Thread void
Hi, context is freebsd 14.2-releng vm (amd64) that has been upgraded with freebsd-update from 13.4. Decided to add another disk so invoking the vm looks like this: # sh vmrun.sh -c 4 -m 16G -t tap2 -d ./vm.img -d ./disk1.img vmname used gpart to create an MBR for disk1.img. tried to make sli