Attachment 11787 Details for Bug 23064 – label.diff

[patch] label.diff

label.diff (text/plain; charset=us-ascii), 1.11 KB, created by Kees Jan Koster on 2001-06-18 20:37:20 UTC

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Creator: Kees Jan Koster

Created: 2001-06-18 20:37:20 UTC

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>--- release/sysinstall/label.c.orig	Mon Jun 18 20:54:02 2001
>+++ release/sysinstall/label.c	Mon Jun 18 21:28:33 2001
>@@ -965,6 +965,27 @@
> 		    clear_wins();
> 		    break;
> 		}
>+
>+#ifdef __alpha__
>+		/*
>+		 * SRM seems to assume that the root partition is the first on
>+		 * the disk and cannot boot otherwise. Warn Alpha users if they
>+		 * are about to shoot themselves in the foot in this way.
>+		 *
>+		 * Since partitions may not start precisely at offset 0 we
>+		 * check for a "close to 0" instead. :-(
>+		 */
>+		if ((flags & CHUNK_IS_ROOT) && (tmp->offset > 1024)) {
>+		    msgConfirm("Your root partition (a) does not seem to be the first\n"
>+			       "partition. SRM can only boot from the first partition,\n"
>+			       "so it is unlikely that your current disk layout will\n"
>+			       "be bootable boot after installation.\n"
>+			       "\n"
>+			       "Please allocate the root partition before allocating\n"
>+			       "any others.\n");
>+		}
>+#endif
>+
> 		if (type != PART_SWAP) {
> 		    /* This is needed to tell the newfs -u about the size */
> 		    tmp->private_data = new_part(p->mountpoint, p->newfs, tmp->size);

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