Re: Installer seems to overwrite partition table

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