Re: install/42866: NetBSD 5.0.2 won't install on 1.5 TB hard drive

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

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From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/42866: NetBSD 5.0.2 won't install on 1.5 TB hard drive
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:36:26 +0700

     Date:        Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:55:02 +0000 (UTC)
     From:        "Randolf Richardson" <randolf%inter-corporate.com@localhost>
     Message-ID:  <20100222195502.14FE463C49F%www.NetBSD.org@localhost>
 
   |    I've now tried "daily-HEAD 201002210000Z," and sysinst will now 
   |  install on the 1.5 TB hard drive
 
 If you use a NetBSD-5_STABLE release (that which shall become NetBSD 5.1,
 one day), I think you'll find that this issue is fixed there as well,
 and there you should have no problems with kernel module loading (as in,
 there are no kernel modules to load...)
 
 I happen to have had an e-mail exchange with a friend about this very
 issue last week - he had the exact same problem, and searched the NetBSD
 lists to find that the problem had been reported, and fixed, ages ago,
 so he was expecting that 5.0.2 should have had the fix.   He was not happy...
 
 However, this fix was (apparently) not considered important enough to
 disrupt the (intended to be very stable) NetBSD 5.0 releases, only the
 most serious security and operational bugs get fixed there, and not being
 able to install on really big filesystems apparently not serious enough t
 warrant the change that needed to be made to fix the problem (which always
 adds the possibility of the introduction of some other bug).
 
 kre