sysinstall dead in -CURRENT?
Pyun YongHyeon
yongari at kt-is.co.kr
Wed Dec 22 00:31:35 PST 2004
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:53:46AM -0600, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> > Ok, here is a better workaround. This patch should also fix another
> > error of sysinstall. At present, sysinstall presents SCSI CDROM
> > to available disks in Fdisk/Label menu. It seems that the root
> > cause is GEOM's disk handling.("kern.disk" always shows SCSI CDROM
> > and it is used as an argument to Open_Disk())
> >
> > So I added an additioanl check for CDROM in sysinstall instead of
> > touching libdisk. Please let me know how it goes. And I'd like
> > to know it doesn't break i386 sysinstall too. Due to lack of i386 with
> > SCSI CDROM I couldn't verify the patch.
>
> Yep, your patch does work, I think it's a valid workaround that would
> help if worked into -CURRENT, I cannot imagine anywhere else where
Thanks, committed.
> addressing the SCSI CD-Rom like you would a regular HD would get you
> into trouble, any other libdisk-caused errors?
>
Users would be confused if CDROM device appear on Fdisk/Label memu.
> -R. Tyler Ballance
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Pyun YongHyeon
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