Re: install/57927: sysinst gpt editor loses partition options, can't change options for one partition at a time

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/57927: sysinst gpt editor loses partition options, can't
 change options for one partition at a time
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 07:15:44 +0100

 On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 12:25:01AM +0000, Harold Gutch wrote:
 >  I don't know if I am doing this right because my end result doesn't
 >  *quite* match the symptoms here, but in sysinst, the sequence
 >  
 >    a a a b a a c 
 >  
 >  will bring you to the GPT partition menu, after which
 >  
 >    b c 6000 e g h b i / x
 >  
 >  will create one partition with the three flags, "install", "newfs" and
 >  "mount" and the "async" mount option and configure it to be mounted on
 >  /.  Then, with
 >  
 >   c e x
 >  
 >  we ask for a second partition to be created, and the only important
 >  thing here is that we set the "install" flag, the rest doesn't seem to
 >  matter.  This *should* just clear the "install" flag from partition
 >  "a" but I would argue that it should leave the rest untouched.  What
 >  it actually does is clear all three flags and also all mount options.
 >  If the first partition does not have the install flag before we set it
 >  on the second, then nothing happens.
 
 Can you send me (off list?) screen shots of the display showing the partitions
 with offsets + flags after each step and details about the disk size
 and partitioning before you start all this?
 
 Just from the key sequences I am not sure if I try exactly the same
 in sysinst versions not running on an RPi.
 
 Are we talking about a 32bit or 64bit setup here? RPi has some special
 treatment in 32bit due to different boot setup.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Martin