Re: install/46258: sysinst doesn't work with wedges/gpt

[Julian Djamil Fagir <gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost>]

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From: Julian Djamil Fagir <gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/46258: sysinst doesn't work with wedges/gpt
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:59:55 +0200

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 Hi,
 
 >  >  I wonder if there will ever be gpt for the current sysinst.
 >  >  But without that, there should at least be a warning somewhere how to
 >  > disab=3D le
 >  >  that.
 > =20
 >  Yes, as long as we don't have a builtin gpt editor, I'm fine with code
 >  detecting it and offering to zero it via dd for now (or convert it, if
 >  that can be tested well enough).
 > =20
 >  Besides, isn't it enough in this case to have sysinst unconfigure the
 >  auto-configured wedges via dkctl?
 that was my initial proposal (perhaps I wasn't clear about that) - destroyi=
 ng
 the wedge.
 Though I'm not enough into gpt to really decide about that. I think gpt is =
 an
 extension to mbr, so we could end up having a gpt which has overlapping
 partitions, don't we?
 
 Regards, Julian
 
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