Bug #572
Updated by tuxillo about 11 years ago
Hi guys, I installed the 1.8.0 release from the liveCD and it screwed up my partition table. How can I set the drive geometry so that the installer will use my c/h/s values instead of the (possibly incorrect) values said to be obtained from BIOS? I noticed this problem in FreeBSD but it seems to have been mitigated by the installer offering a "G" option to set drive geometry around 6.1/6.2 release, not sure exactly when. I posted a question on the users list on Feb. 26 but hearing nothing (and wanting to install Dfly 1.8.0 release) I am posting here on bugs. Someone with a multiboot setup who doesn't track changes to his partition table can suffer loss of data because of this error. It could be a relatively serious problem, especially for newbies to multibooting as symptoms probably won't appear immediately, it will be difficult to diagnose. Thanks, Rand