On 08/06/11 12:18, Garrett Wollman wrote:
In article<4e3d55fd.7090...@freebsd.org>, nwhiteh...@freebsd.org writes:
I'm not entirely sure what you're referring to. Whenever you add a /
partition on a partitioning scheme that requires a boot partition (APM,
GPT on some platforms), the installer asks you if you want to add a boot
partition. The auto-partitioner does this automatically. It does not
reuse any existing boot partition for two reasons:
- It has no way to know the other boot partition was correctly set up
and so would need to reinitialize it.
- There is no guarantee that it is even related to FreeBSD. On APM
disks, we share a boot partition type with OS X and Linux.
Having just been through this, I can only say that neither of these
arguments apply when the boot partition exists only in the memory of
the partition editor and was never on the (freshly initialized) disk.
I was a bit taken aback when I deleted and recreated the / partition
(since I didn't want the "everything in one partition" layout it
defaulted to) and it wanted to create *another* boot partition.
That's a hard thing to check. The boot partition is not just in the
memory of the installer -- the internal state before commit is
maintained in the kernel by geom. I can try to find a way around it, but
it won't necessarily be easy.
Another issue I had was that it was unclear which keymap I was
expected to choose. I initially chose "traditional Unix workstation",
which was unusable. (Never did find the control or escape key, which
made vi particularly difficult to use.) The default selection in the
keymap dialog ought to be "don't screw with it" rather than an option
which is not obviously correct. Forcing users to set a system
timezone is probably a good idea, too; I had not noticed that it never
asked me for one until I ran the "date" command and found my system
running in UTC.
You are free to press "cancel" at the keymap selection. That dialog is
also identical to what kbdmap and sysinstall do (in fact, all it is
doing is running kbdmap). Also, it does ask you to set a time zone,
although it does allow you to cancel time zone setup. It does that
immediately before asking which system daemons you want run at startup
and after network configuration. It also gives you a chance to do that
at the end of the installation.
-Nathan
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