20040502 snapshot + Dell PE3250

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:48 am, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:00:17PM +0530, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
> > The /dev/da0p2 line shows negative numbers in 'Avail' column. Its
> > capacity is 104%.
> > Is this a bug? Or Am I missing something?
>
> The root file system is too small. Make it larger. You also need to
> specify a mount point for the EFI partition so that the kernel gets
> installed there. You cannot boot otherwise.

No.  sysinstall only mounts /, it doesn't mount the other partitions.  The 
buggy code is in install.c in sysinstall where it does the newfs and mount 
bit since it doesn't check for top-level partitions being filesystems and 
swap, etc.  Also, there is _another_ bug that you can't create a filesystem 
for the remaining space.  sysinstall complains that the partition is too big.  
*sigh*  I'm going to try to work on at least the first bug today.

> The installer links /boot to /efi/boot, so you cannot mount the EFI
> partition as /boot/efi. Set the mount point to /efi.

It would be good to document this or better yet fix sysinstall to choose 
'/efi' as the default mount point for EFI.

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