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Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst



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:
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Needs to be fixed correctly first...
> 
> 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"? 
:-)

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

Take care,

Bill

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