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Date:      Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:34:21 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SUCCESS! was: Re: installing from CD
Message-ID:  <200906250834.21519.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <59FB8BE3-5E21-465E-A457-74615EC9820A@mac.com>
References:  <20090623160004.GB8702@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <200906240828.29922.jhb@freebsd.org> <59FB8BE3-5E21-465E-A457-74615EC9820A@mac.com>

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On Wednesday 24 June 2009 11:18:57 pm Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:28 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > Looks like this might address that:
> >
> > Index: usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (revision 194698)
> > +++ usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (working copy)
> > @@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@
> > #ifdef __ia64__
> >     AutoEfi = NULL;
> >     if (EfiChunk == NULL) {
> > -       sz = 100 * ONE_MEG;
> > +       sz = 200 * ONE_MEG;
> >        AutoEfi = Create_Chunk_DWIM(label_chunk_info[here].c->disk,
> >            label_chunk_info[here].c, sz, efi, 0, 0);
> >        if (AutoEfi == NULL) {
> >
> > Marcel, do you think this change is ok to bump the EFI part up to  
> > 200MB for
> > 8.0?
> 
> Yes, definitely. I would bump it to 400MB though. That avoids problems
> when users build and install a GENERIC kernel themselves (i.e. we can
> have a /boot/kernel and /boot/kernel.old with room for growth).

Ok, done, thanks for the review!

-- 
John Baldwin



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