>Number:         17387
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       i386 installboot error messages need improvement
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 25 11:54:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Greg A. Woods
>Release:        NetBSD-current 2002/06/23
>Organization:
Planix, Inc.; Toronto, Ontario; Canada
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

	the installboot error messages complain about problems without
	giving the details necessary to fix those problems...

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

	this same kind of fix should probably be made for other
	architectures too....


Index: installboot.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/master/m-NetBSD/main/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/stand/installboot/installboot.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -c -c -r1.15 installboot.c
*** installboot.c	10 Sep 1999 16:45:27 -0000	1.15
--- installboot.c	25 Jun 2002 17:00:44 -0000
***************
*** 196,202 ****
  
  		/* need new entry */
  	        if (fraglist->numentries > fraglist->maxentries - 1) {
! 			errx(1, "not enough fragment space in bootcode\n");
  			return (-1);
  		}
  
--- 196,204 ----
  
  		/* need new entry */
  	        if (fraglist->numentries > fraglist->maxentries - 1) {
! 			errx(1, "not enough fragment space in bootcode: need %d, max %d\n",
! 			     fraglist->numentries,
! 			     fraglist->maxentries);
  			return (-1);
  		}
  
***************
*** 338,344 ****
  		printf("%s: block number %d, size %u table blocks: %d/%d\n",
  		       diskdev, blkno, size, ndb, fraglist->maxentries);
  	if (ndb > fraglist->maxentries) {
! 		errx(1, "not enough fragment space in bootcode\n");
  		return (-1);
  	}
  
--- 340,347 ----
  		printf("%s: block number %d, size %u table blocks: %d/%d\n",
  		       diskdev, blkno, size, ndb, fraglist->maxentries);
  	if (ndb > fraglist->maxentries) {
! 		errx(1, "not enough fragment space in bootcode, need %d more\n",
! 		     ndb - fraglist->maxentries);
  		return (-1);
  	}
  
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