Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/16/2004 14:32:56
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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:47:36PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:33:21PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> >=20
> > Log Message:
> > PR/26201: Jukka Salmi: sysinst dumps core on NetBSD 2.0_BETA i386
> > The problem is that current_cylsize is used in the menu to select
> > rounding, and it is un-initialized at this point.
> > XXX: Must be pulled up to 2.0
>=20
> Needs to be fixed correctly first...
>=20
> Rightly or wrongly, partitions have always been aligned to BIOS cylinders
> on i386 - the committed change (unless I've misread it) uses the
> 'real' (aka faked by the disk) cylinder size instead.

Does "Needs to be fixed correctly" really go with "Rightly or wrongly"?=20
:-)

While I think that a change like this perhaps should be documented, it=20
doesn't sound like a bad change.

Take care,

Bill

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