Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:21:10 +0100 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> To: Jim Riggs <freebsd-lists@christianserving.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD/DVD ejecting after sysinstall Message-ID: <641B7F47-CD12-415D-A808-861F4E85F60C@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <9674C06D-DC2D-40C3-B523-E397C9ADC37B@christianserving.org> References: <9674C06D-DC2D-40C3-B523-E397C9ADC37B@christianserving.org>
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On 20 Aug 2010, at 20:46, Jim Riggs wrote: > References: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/svn-src-all@freebsd.org/msg24380.html > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=17126 > > > This commit automatically ejects the CD when sysinstall exits which almost had dire consequences for me this week. As described in the forum post, I keep a LiveFS CD in all of my servers so that I can remotely diagnose and fix issues. I have done this for several years now, and it has saved my tail many times. > > However, I got a surprise when I tried it today with the new 8.1 LiveFS CDs I had just burned. After attempting to fix a problem from the LiveFS and rebooting back to the HD, the problem still existed. No problem. I just tried to boot back to the CD only to find that it was gone. Luckily, this was on a box in-house, so I was quickly able to see what was wrong. > > Now that I have the commit, I can roll my own patched sysinstall and CDs, but the question is: Should we be ejecting the media without any prompt? Obviously, for my use case, I liked the old behavior of just reminding the user to eject the media when rebooting. I understand that may not be optimal for some users. Can we present a dialog asking the user if they want the media to be ejected? That still leaves me at risk of selecting the wrong answer, I suppose. I would rather not have to roll my own LiveFS CDs every time, though. > > Thoughts from anyone else? (Please copy me on responses.) You are correct. We should not be ejecting the CD without a prompt. If the commit is reverted, it should be explicitly noted in the code so that we don't do this mistake again. Regards, -- Rui Paulo
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