Shooting sysinstall/SADE geometry warning in the head

Carlos A. M. dos Santos unixmania at gmail.com
Fri Dec 26 11:26:51 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:27 AM, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
> It seems Sysinstall and SADE are ingorant of today's disk geometries.
> Is there good reason to not make this change?  I've been getting the
> gratitious
>
> +----------------------------- Message -----------------------------+
> |WARNING:  A geometry of 290721/16/63 for ad8 is incorrect.  Using  |
[...]
>
> warning from just about every usage of sysinstall/SADE over the past
> few years.

I suggested the attached patch some time ago. It keeps the message but
makes it less scaring. Please see

     http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042697.html

-- 
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean
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