From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 26 20:44:40 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF1D1065673 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:44:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from mx1.rink.nu (gloom.rink.nu [213.34.49.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883AE8FC17 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:44:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@rink.nu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D8F6D42B; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:45:10 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rink.nu Received: from mx1.rink.nu ([213.34.49.2]) by localhost (gloom.rink.nu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ixwUWRWsHlQH; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:45:07 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3261F6D423; Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:45:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:45:07 +0100 From: Rink Springer To: obrien@freebsd.org, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20081226204507.GF95307@rink.nu> References: <20081226072712.GA25406@dragon.NUXI.org> <20081226203954.GC83362@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081226203954.GC83362@dragon.NUXI.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: Subject: Re: Shooting sysinstall/SADE geometry warning in the head X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:44:40 -0000 On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:39:54PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > The problem is this patch keeps the message and extra steps to get into > the Fdisk editor. No other OS I've tried would warn/note/complain about > these disks in this machine. So why keep the message for FreeBSD? It > just makes FreeBSD look like its finicky about disks (and maybe suggest > less compatible than other OS's?). I agree; FreeBSD is the only OS that complains about this, and ignoring the warnings has always worked perfectly well for me. Thus, let's just nuke the message and get it over with. -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Chance favours the prepared mind" - Penn