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Date:      Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:59:06 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shooting sysinstall/SADE geometry warning in the head
Message-ID:  <20081230005906.GA87415@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <e71790db0812260303i5e22397bq24ab010d5311031c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20081226072712.GA25406@dragon.NUXI.org> <e71790db0812260303i5e22397bq24ab010d5311031c@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:03:40AM -0200, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 5:27 AM, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > It seems Sysinstall and SADE are ingorant of today's disk geometries.
> > Is there good reason to not make this change?  I've been getting the
> > gratitious
..
> I suggested the attached patch some time ago. It keeps the message but
> makes it less scaring. Please see
>      http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-May/042697.html

I committed this patch for now - to make it easy to MFC.
I will still probably just remove the warning for 8-CURRENT given folks
aren't near as likely to try to install an machines with really old BIOS.

But your patch may be the best approach for 7.2 and 6.x.
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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