Hello! OS: Linux livecd 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Mon Feb 13 20:23:47 UTC 2006 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux boot kerneloptions: acpi=off apm=off No manually loaded modules. During a normal installation the gentoo installer destroys the MBR of my /dev/sda. /dev/sda is a RAID0 volume of a 3ware 8006-2LP controller. I've tried it two times. The problem second time was exactly the same. The original MBR was created by FreeBSD's fdisk-linux utility and no other OS (FreeBSD, SuSE Liux, WindowsXP) has problems with it. More information and logs you can find here: http://net.razik.de/temp/gentoo-2006.0 Regards, Lukas
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First, it didn't destroy your MBR. What happened is that the installer died while trying to recreate all the partitions, so they didn't all get recreated. The gtkfe gives you a warning about "unknown" partitions. When you get to the partitioning screen, it will pop up a Yes/No dialog box that says "One of your disks contains a partition of a type that the installer cannot currently handle. If you continue, you risk damaging your partition table. You have been warned!". Anyway, there is already code in CVS to prevent this from happening even if you ignore the warning.
Hello! O.K. You're right, sorry, it didn't "destroy" the whole MBR - only the partition table... But I want to add my opinion: 1. I didn't ignore the warning but I thought the Installer means my other two hard disks which are connected to a software RAID controller which isn't supported by kernel v2.6. So the warning message is not really detailed. 2. I didn't want that the Installer changes the partition table. I only wanted to format a partition as ext3 (which was ext3 before) and because of that I thought that the Installer won't do anything with the partition table... 3. I think it would be no mistake if the Installer would give me the choice to restore the original partition table if an exception occurs. So I hope the new Installer will be more user friendly - I'm curious about it. Best regards, Lukas
