Re: install/55201: 9.0 hp300 sysinst cannot find root partition on upgrade in some case

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/55201; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: install/55201: 9.0 hp300 sysinst cannot find root partition on
	 upgrade in some case
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:14:32 +0900

 I wrote:
 
 > The target sd0 has the following disklabel:
 > ---
  :
 > 8 partitions:
 > #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 >  a:   4422260       820     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl.      1 -   5393)
 >  b:    262400   4423080       swap                     # (Cyl.   5394 -   5713)
 >  c:   4685480         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -   5713)
 >  d:       820         0       boot                     # (Cyl.      0 -      0)
 > # 
 
 I've edited the disklabel on the target disk and
 change "8 partitons:" to "4 partitions:" then
 sysinst upgrade proceeds properly.
 
 Maybe sysinst(8) should accept "N partitions" larger than
 existing entries?
 (at least disklabel(8) command doesn't complain for it
  and it is a bit useful for users for future additions)
 
 ---
 Izumi Tsutsui