Re: install/53220: sysinst dumps core with extended partitioning.

[Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>]

Hi Robert!

(I don't know if you remember me, but we've run into each other at IETFs
in the past, in DNSOP and DNSEXT. I'm one of the 2 m tall DNS Swedes ... ;-)

kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost:
> The following reply was made to PR install/53220; it has been noted by GNATS.

> From: Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: install/53220: sysinst dumps core with extended partitioning.
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 14:17:41 +0700

>  I have seen that as well, though on bare metal rather
>  that a DomU (though to sysinst there should be little,
>  if any, difference.)

Aye. I suspected as much, but I had no bare metal to test it on.

>  I used a similar workaround - just install manually.
>  You could have done it from inside the DomU
>  though, just tell sysinst not to install, but just give
>  you a shell - after that, the same procedure
>  except there's no need to vnconfig anything
>  (which is fortunate as on bare metal there's
>  no way to do it outside the running system.)

(Sure, it's just that outside the VM i have access to all my
"convenience tools" whereas inside it, the land is "barren and
cold" ... ;-)

>  I have been meaning to look into it - sometime - but it is
>  not a high priority for me (system is installed now...)

Understood. But maybe the famous $someone should take a look at it
before 8.0-REL goes out the door.

			Cheers,
			  /Liman
                           (a.k.a. hostmaster ,at, i-root.servers.net,
                            or liman ,at, netnod.se (my daywork))
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