Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 09:40:53 GMT From: Roddi <roddi@me.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/150239: gpart bootcode displays highly ambiguous message Message-ID: <201009030940.o839er2R088274@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201009030950.o839o5j9053402@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 150239 >Category: bin >Synopsis: gpart bootcode displays highly ambiguous message >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Sep 03 09:50:05 UTC 2010 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Roddi >Release: 8.1 i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10 returns "ad10s1 has bootcode" Which could either mean (1) "ad10s1 already has bootcode. I wont overwrite that!" or (2) "bootcode was written to ad10s1" It's not very obvious that (2) is the case. Please change the return string to (2) >How-To-Repeat: # gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ad10 >Fix: Change the return string to "bootcode was written to %s" >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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