Bug #3369
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installer fails to use entire disk: legacy BIOS, qemu, virtio_blk
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Description
Install fails to use entire disk and sets size to 8063MB.
For example, create a qemu image of 20GB and install. The resulting system disk is ~8GB in size, underutilizing the full 20GB. This bug manifests when:
1. performing qemu guest install
2. guest configured to use virtio_blk for qemu img that is installation target
3. qemu img is new (all zeros) and has not yet been partitioned
4. dfly installer legacy BIOS is selected
Workaround: repeat the select-disk after formatting for first time
1. select: Install DragonFly BSD
2. select: Legacy BIOS
3. select: vbd0
4. select: Use Entire Disk
5. select: RETURN TO SELECT DISK (instead of selecting file system) to repeat steps 1...4
Reduction: use fdisk to summarize the disk; the result must be as follows; specifically there must be no line beginning with /dev/vbd0 supplying disk geometry:
fdisk -s vbd0 fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found fdisk: read_s0: Undefined error: 0
Anti-Reduction: bug will not manifest if fdisk shows any /dev/vbd0 disk geometry as follows:
fdisk -s vbd0 ... /dev/vbd1: 41610 cyl 16 hd 63 sec Part Start Size Type Flags ...
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