Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:46:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Message-ID: <XFMail.981017114617.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <22286.908622736@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard, On 17-Oct-98 you wrote:
> > Because newfs was broken in rev.1.9 of newfs/newfs.c (before 2.0.5R).
> > Unfortunately, the breaker didn't seem to have investigated the failure
> > mode, so I didn't know how to fix it when I backed out the breakage
> > in rev.1.22.
>
> Unfortunately, you broke it even worse. Please don't cause worse
> breakage, where breakage is defined as systems which no longer
> install, in the process of fixing other breakage. This "feature" in
> 1.22 will stay disabled until the root issues are figured out, not
> before.
Please note that:
a. At least here, newfs, in and by itself, in an installed system does not
exhibit any of these messages, nor the faulty behavior. Only the
context of sysinstall, from the boot floppy does.
b. We have not done a complete, destructive, install since the pre-CAM
days. The problem might have been there all along.
c. The release we built on the 4th of October displays the messages but
does not fail to install. The release of the 13th displays the same
messages but fails to install.
Maybe there is sme help in these notes...
Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
770.265.7340
Simon Shapiro
Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth
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