Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:46:39 -0500 From: Jim Riggs <freebsd-lists@christianserving.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: CD/DVD ejecting after sysinstall Message-ID: <9674C06D-DC2D-40C3-B523-E397C9ADC37B@christianserving.org>
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References: http://www.mail-archive.com/svn-src-all@freebsd.org/msg24380.html http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D17126 This commit automatically ejects the CD when sysinstall exits which = almost had dire consequences for me this week. As described in the = forum post, I keep a LiveFS CD in all of my servers so that I can = remotely diagnose and fix issues. I have done this for several years = now, and it has saved my tail many times. However, I got a surprise when I tried it today with the new 8.1 LiveFS = CDs I had just burned. After attempting to fix a problem from the = LiveFS and rebooting back to the HD, the problem still existed. No = problem. I just tried to boot back to the CD only to find that it was = gone. Luckily, this was on a box in-house, so I was quickly able to see = what was wrong. Now that I have the commit, I can roll my own patched sysinstall and = CDs, but the question is: Should we be ejecting the media without any = prompt? Obviously, for my use case, I liked the old behavior of just = reminding the user to eject the media when rebooting. I understand that = may not be optimal for some users. Can we present a dialog asking the = user if they want the media to be ejected? That still leaves me at risk = of selecting the wrong answer, I suppose. I would rather not have to = roll my own LiveFS CDs every time, though. Thoughts from anyone else? (Please copy me on responses.) - Jim
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