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Redmine DragonFlyBSD - Bug #572 (Closed): Installer: no option to set geometry/corrupts partition tablehttps://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/5722007-03-04T02:10:03Zrandux
<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>I installed the 1.8.0 release from the liveCD and it screwed up my <br />partition table. How can I set the drive geometry so that the installer <br />will use my c/h/s values instead of the (possibly incorrect) values said <br />to be obtained from BIOS?</p>
<p>I noticed this problem in FreeBSD but it seems to have been mitigated by <br />the installer offering a "G" option to set drive geometry around 6.1/6.2 <br />release, not sure exactly when.</p>
<p>I posted a question on the users list on Feb. 26 but hearing nothing <br />(and wanting to install Dfly 1.8.0 release) I am posting here on bugs. <br />Someone with a multiboot setup who doesn't track changes to his <br />partition table can suffer loss of data because of this error. It could <br />be a relatively serious problem, especially for newbies to multibooting <br />as symptoms probably won't appear immediately, it will be difficult to <br />diagnose.</p>
<p>Thanks,<br />Rand</p>