bin/150239: gpart bootcode displays highly ambiguous message

Roddi roddi at me.com
Fri Sep 3 09:50:05 UTC 2010


>Number:         150239
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       gpart bootcode displays highly ambiguous message
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 03 09:50:05 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Roddi
>Release:        8.1 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
# gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10

returns

"ad10s1 has bootcode"

Which could either mean 

(1) "ad10s1 already has bootcode. I wont overwrite that!"

or

(2) "bootcode was written to ad10s1"

It's not very obvious that (2) is the case. 

Please change the return string to (2)

>How-To-Repeat:
# gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10

>Fix:
Change the return string to "bootcode was written to %s"


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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