Re: Shooting sysinstall/SADE geometry warning in the head

From: Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixmania_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:03:40 -0200
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:27 AM, David O'Brien <obrien_at_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
>
> +----------------------------- Message -----------------------------+
> |WARNING:  A geometry of 290721/16/63 for ad8 is incorrect.  Using  |
[...]
>
> warning from just about every usage of sysinstall/SADE over the past
> few years.

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

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cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean

Received on Fri Dec 26 2008 - 10:26:51 UTC

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