Shooting sysinstall/SADE geometry warning in the head
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 30 00:59:07 UTC 2008
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:03:40AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> 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
..
> 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
I committed this patch for now - to make it easy to MFC.
I will still probably just remove the warning for 8-CURRENT given folks
aren't near as likely to try to install an machines with really old BIOS.
But your patch may be the best approach for 7.2 and 6.x.
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