Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 03:24:59 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com Subject: Re: Adding/deleting partitions should be Linux-like Message-ID: <199509181724.DAA01607@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Can you "fix" fdisk -i? I don't know enough about what the proper offsets
>should be, but it certainly does the wrong thing for people now.
Offsets are system-dependent so it's impossible to get them right without
asking.
The -i flag is almost unusable now. It clears clears each partition entry
that you say you want to change, and writes a new bootstrap if and only if
you say that you want to change partition 3 (of 0-3). It should offer
a choice of boot loaders starting with bteasy. Currently it installs
`static unsigned char bootcode[] = {
0x33, 0xc0, 0xfa, ...'
I don't know where the source for this is.
This isn't worth working on, because sysinstall is too good :-).
Bruce
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