Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:20:39 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611242220.JAA05605@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>> This confuses the kernel since by definition a valid BSD slice >>> ends at a cylinder boundary to help the kernel detect the geometry. >>> This important requirement seems to be unknown to most install programs >>> and persons :-(. >> >>This has nothing to do with sysinstall as it does not calculate >>geometry. This is done by libdisk and is an important bit of >>information which seems to be unknown to most non-install persons. :-) > >I >do< recognize a hint when delivered on a brick through my window :-) Well, the original brick was thrown half at persons who install FreeBSD, not at persons who write FreeBSD install programs. The latter know about the requirement, of course :-). Bruce
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