Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:59:06 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shooting sysinstall/SADE geometry warning in the head Message-ID: <20081230005906.GA87415@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <e71790db0812260303i5e22397bq24ab010d5311031c@mail.gmail.com> References: <20081226072712.GA25406@dragon.NUXI.org> <e71790db0812260303i5e22397bq24ab010d5311031c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:03:40AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:27 AM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > > It seems Sysinstall and SADE are ingorant of today's disk geometries. > > Is there good reason to not make this change? I've been getting the > > gratitious .. > I suggested the attached patch some time ago. It keeps the message but > makes it less scaring. Please see > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042697.html I committed this patch for now - to make it easy to MFC. I will still probably just remove the warning for 8-CURRENT given folks aren't near as likely to try to install an machines with really old BIOS. But your patch may be the best approach for 7.2 and 6.x. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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