When I posted this I decided to go back and run the installer again to ensure that I could reproduce this result. I determined at the point in the installer at which one selects the install media, one is presented with a list of drives in a scrolling list with {*} selectors for each drive to be included in the installation (duh). I viewed this as selecting a single drive and not asterisk selecting a number of drives (most of which don't appear in the list unless one scrolls at this point in the text installer. I blew it. I might suggest, however, that every drive on the system probably shouldn't be selected by default, but just the first drive encountered.
Okay, so this is a testing system so I'm not really out anything.
I'm posting here to determine if it is possible that the installer behaviour could possibly be intentional.
I added a small drive (/dev/sda) to install Sabayon 6 amd64 Server to a bench testing system.
This system also HAD a testing Gentoo system (/dev/sdb /dev/sdc) installed on another controller in BTRFS RAID1 (like I said testing). There were also some other drives attached as you'll see.
I selected /dev/sda to install Sabayon and was never prompted about any other storage devices on the system.
This is what I've got now:
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/dev/sda1: UUID="af1e67cf-e626-40e3-86cc-d121ef6e4827" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="aDyRYl-3SXA-c442-CPYa-6cDD-Sq4q-Umdfas" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="HWomag-B2U2-FH1R-sjZR-ep0W-wT80-ln9zKK" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdc1: UUID="uUwL81-Ovfw-waU5-KmMK-pCN6-Uv9u-3xbjWd" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdd1: UUID="xJrgZr-qWTj-ixxK-hhDa-MF6r-T9Wx-ioOZ7I" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sde1: UUID="fYNf39-F4Fs-rdQO-Aa5O-U0nV-FUzk-HpeZyE" TYPE="LVM2_member"
I am confused, why did Sabayon decide (without asking ?!) to repartition every drive on the system.
Before the installation I had:
- /dev/sda - unpartitioned
- /dev/sdb - GPT -- /dev/sdb1 - BTRFS
- /dev/sdc - GPT -- /dev/sdc1 - BTRFS
- /dev/sdd - MBR -- /dev/sdc1 - EXT4
- /dev/sde - MBR -- /dev/sdd1 - FAT32 (thumb drive)
Is it correct that Sabayon wiped every other device on the system without warning?
I repeat, I have not lost any data or vital system functionality. I'm asking this question because I don't believe that this could possibly be the default behaviour intended by the Sabayon developers.
In a normal situation, I would detach all other drives on a system before installing a new DISTRO. I'm almost glad I didn't this time because I think the Sabayon developers will want to evaluate the installer behaviour in this case.