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i386/1456: install process writes MBR partition table without confirmation
>Number: 1456
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: install process writes MBR partition table without confirmation
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: bugs
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 17 11:00:02 MDT 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: don
>Organization:
net
>Release: 2.7
>Environment:
System : OpenBSD 2.8
Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
Machine : i386
>Description:
At the beginning of the install procedure, the user is asked
whether the entire disk will be OpenBSD. If "yes" is entered, a new
MBR partition is immediately saved to disk without user confirmation,
as is customary.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Give fdisk a command option (used by the install program) to generate
a new partition in memory, and do not save the new partition to disk
until the "write" command is entered.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: