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Date:      Mon, 7 Jan 2002 14:09:06 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c
Message-ID:  <20020107140906.A9972@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <9297.1010408421@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:00:21PM %2B0200
References:  <200201071244.g07CiTV11297@freefall.freebsd.org> <9297.1010408421@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:44:29 PST, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> 
> >   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
> >     release/sysinstall   install.c 
> >   Log:
> >   MFC rev 1.316: revert to old newfs 8192/1024 block/frag sizes on the
> >   alpha
> 
> This is required to avoid triggering whatever bugs exist in the Alpha
> boot code that prevent it from using a root partition with a block size
> other than 8192.
> 
> If anyone has any great ideas for a low impact method of reducing the
> effect of this regression to just the root partition on Alphas for
> 4.5-RELEASE, I'm all ears. :-)

Strange.. 2 hours ago I tested my RC0 snapshot (so without this revert)
on a DS20 and it boots just fine after the install.

What errros do you get?

W/

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