Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:50:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <199511012250.PAA00628@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511012244.PAA15761@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Nov 1, 95 03:44:03 pm
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> > [ > Moving the installation of the boot manager to a different spot on the > install menu > ] > > Terry, notice *what* the subject is. It's not about changing how things > are done, but *when* things are done. :) That would be "Re: More nits". Your bracketed text paraphrase was not part of the original text Jordan posted about: > > > > > I think you're right. Hmmm. I will have it ask you when you leave > > > > > the editor, 'k? What do the others think? And the partition editor is fdisk. > > > Excuse me?! What does adding a boot manager have to do with logical > > > volume device mapping? > > > > It has to do with what the hell belongs in a partitioning tool, and > > writing a boot manager is one of the things that damn well doesn't. > > That's where your *wrong*. There is no other place to put it. It is > something that is *directly* related to the partition, because the MBR > tells the *PC-HW* what partition to boot from. This is writing the partition table, not the MBR code. > [ Irrelevant ranting about fdisk and devfs deleted ] > > Since *NONE* of this stuff is relevant until *after* FreeBSD is booted, > how is at all related to the partition menu? The MBR stuff is necessary > for the PC hardware, and once FreeBSD is running it's no longer an > issue. So now FreeBSD is not running when the install takes place? BZZZZZZZT. > > > Terry's off in space again!! :-) > > > > Hardly. It's Jordan who wants to jam a PC specific, single logical > > layer specific *wart* into the nice, clean, system independent fdisk > > interface that would otherwise work for AIX, SunOS, OSF/1, and other > > OS's so we can *FINALLY* abstract the idiotic, limited, BIOS geometry > > dependent DOS partition crap. > > Huh? Moving where he installs the MBR to a different spot on the menu > is hardly adding a *wart* to the slice API. Making it a default prompt after editing the partitions in fdisk would be. > Sit back and breathe a bit and think about what's being said, and forget > a little bit about what you want down. They are unrelated, so long > posts about what you want that have *nothing* to do with what is being > said only confuse. Ditto. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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