From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 00:08:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CC016A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:08:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from node15.coopprint.com (node15.cooperativeprinting.com [208.4.77.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F36BC43D41 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:08:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 27246 invoked by uid 0); 31 Oct 2004 00:06:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (63.231.165.87) by node15.coopprint.com with SMTP; 31 Oct 2004 00:06:38 -0000 Message-ID: <41842CEB.1000305@gamersimpact.com> Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:08:11 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <200410290741.i9T7f8DW095035@pooker.samsco.org> <200410302346.18306.Emanuel.Strobl@gmx.net> <4184181A.303@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4184181A.303@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Emanuel Strobl cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: re@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:08:09 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > 72895 is indeed serious, but it doesn't prevent a normal install so > long and you specifically avoid the problem. Unfortunately there are > no patches attached to this PR, so it's hard for us to evaluate how > hard it > would be to fix it. I probably should have landed on the TODO list a > long time ago, and I'll make sure it gets on the 5.3 TODO list. But > again it's not a show-stopper because it doesn't prevent a normal > install from succeeding. I've been mingling in the sysinstall code while I ponder and take notes for designing a new install program, so I'll take a look at this. It's only one of the sysinstall PRs that really need to be looked at. There are a number of others that are open, that I haven't had a chance to verify, relating to sysinstall replacing the boot manager even if they specified to leave it alone. Just in case anyone else has thought about the fix for this check me here and see if this sounds legit... Add a block in diskPartitionWrite to check active partitions: If more than one partition marked active Find first FreeBSD partition with a root file-system on it and mark it as active, while de-activating all other partitions. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com