Re: Installer seems to overwrite partition table

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Michael Neumann wrote:
> > Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > > :Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> > > :> Didn't I want to change the default back to -C?  I think it is very
> > > bad t=
> > > :> o create a slice table which hangs some machines.
> > > :
> > > :Yep, but I think Matt was against it. I wouldn't change the default
> > > :itself, but instead modify the installer to use -C by default (or at
> > > :least make it an option).
> > > :
> > > :Regards,
> > > :
> > > :   Michael
> > >
> > >     Using -C will break more things then it will fix.  Hard drives
> > >     have been large enough to overflow the CHS fields for years now,
> > >     and wrapped values can confuse the hell out of bioses probably even
> > >     worse now verses using all 1's.
> > Agreed. But it is desireable for those of us that have screwed bioses,
> > to be able to install DragonFly on it without the need to perform all
> > the installation commands by hand (fdisk, cpdup etc.), just because
> > the installer does not pass "-C" to fdisk.
> >
> > I'd like to see a "options for fdisk" setting in the installer, in the
> > same way as you can specify options to newfs (at least in FreeBSD).
>
> How does linux' cfdisk/fdisk handle it?  How does Windows do it?  I guess they don't smash the slice table, so we should take a look there, I'd say.

I don't know. FreeBSD just has -C as default. The fdisk from NetBSD has 
only little code in common with FreeBSD's fdisk. And NetBSD's version 
also doesn't have this problem (it seems to determine the correct values).

Regards,

  Michael