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Re: port-alpha/48697 (Sysinst compute illegal disk geometry and newfs is bound to fail.)



Synopsis: Sysinst compute illegal disk geometry and newfs is bound to fail.

Responsible-Changed-From-To: martin->tsutsui
Responsible-Changed-By: tsutsui%NetBSD.org@localhost
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:51:36 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
This problem is triggered by MD alpha source as mentioned in the PR and    
it can be workarounded by the suggested patch without far future MI sysinst
reorganization including proper sanity checks against disk geometry values.
Ok'ed by martin.


State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
State-Changed-By: tsutsui%NetBSD.org@localhost
State-Changed-When: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:51:36 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
As mentioned in the PR, the problem is caused by wrong d_nsectors and
d_secpercyl values written by Tru64 and we shouldn't calculate            
dlsize (sectors per unit) from these possibly wrong values.





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