Re: Wedges & sysinst (Was: Wedges enabled on -current)

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 06:20:39AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> I suspect that (instead of enabling auto wedge detection on existing labels
> as the next step forward - ie: undoing what was recently done) sysinst be
> updated (for i386 and amd64 at least) to offer GPT instead of disklabel
> installs (as the default for amd64 & i386 - other ports probably need more
> investigation to see how GPT can fit into the existing partitioning scheme so
> booting still works).

Sysinst allows creating gpt partitions already, but there are "issues"
to be fixed (probably lots of them), and right now in -current it does
not deal well with the wedge autodetection.

Martin