Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 20:30:23 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-release@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall devices.c Message-ID: <199805111030.UAA11259@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>I think the SCSI cdroms should also use 'a' >>(I may be wrong since a lot has changed since I wrote it) I wrote: >Yes, the cd driver generates a (buggy) fake partition with only >an 'a' entry. Bugs: >1) the fstype for the 'a' entry is 4.4LFS. >2) the size for the 'a' entry seems to be correct for 512-byte > sectors, but it should be in 2048-byte sectors. The > sectors/unit entry is in 2048-byte sectors. disklabel(8) > warns about the size being too large. Howerver, the 'c' partition works anyway. More bugs and bogons: 3) no bounds checking for the 'c' partition. 4) bounds checking for the 'a' partition depends on 512-byte sectors, i.e., it depends on one of the bugs in 2). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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