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Date:      Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:00:21 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c 
Message-ID:  <9297.1010408421@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:44:29 PST." <200201071244.g07CiTV11297@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:44:29 PST, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
>     release/sysinstall   install.c 
>   Log:
>   MFC rev 1.316: revert to old newfs 8192/1024 block/frag sizes on the
>   alpha

This is required to avoid triggering whatever bugs exist in the Alpha
boot code that prevent it from using a root partition with a block size
other than 8192.

If anyone has any great ideas for a low impact method of reducing the
effect of this regression to just the root partition on Alphas for
4.5-RELEASE, I'm all ears. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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