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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, phk@critter.tfs.com
Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure
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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