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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: misc/151967: src: usr.sbin/pc-sysinstall - Add support 4k
 partition alignment
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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