Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:40:06 GMT From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/151967: src: usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall - Add support 4k partition alignment Message-ID: <201011051640.oA5Ge6es057800@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/151967; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Kris Moore <kmoore@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/151967: src: usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall - Add support 4k partition alignment Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:37:57 +0000 On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:28:19 GMT Kris Moore <kmoore@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > After talking to pjd@, jpaetzel@ and a few others at MeetBSD, the fix > to getting proper alignment on 4K drives seems to be changing our > starting block to "64" when doing a full-disk installation or > creating the first partition. The attached patch fixes this. > >How-To-Repeat: See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2010-November/004456.html for why using a starting block of 64 won't (currently) work. -- Bruce Cran
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