Bug 23064
| Summary: | Alphas do not boot if `a' (/) partition isn't at a lower offset than `b' (swap) | ||||||||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | k.j.koster <k.j.koster> | ||||||
| Component: | alpha | Assignee: | jkh | ||||||
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||||||||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||||||||
| Priority: | Normal | ||||||||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Any | ||||||||
| OS: | Any | ||||||||
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Description
k.j.koster
2000-11-24 09:40:01 UTC
State Changed From-To: open->closed The issue reported is inherent in the alpha SRM. The requirement for the partition location is documented in INSTALL.TXT for both -current and -releng4 Dear Wilko,
While I appreciate your janitorial :) efforts, I would like to ask you to
reopen this PR.
The reason for me to open the PR was that it may scare off the
Alpha-newbies.
Since this is an Alpha-specific problem, perhaps /stand/sysinstall should
have a warning if someone on an Alpha wants to shoot himself in the foot.
(Just a warning, because if people need their foot shot off they should be
able to do it). Something along the lines of: "Gee, looks like you're going
to create a non-booting disk layout, are you sure you want to do that?" (I'm
sure you can download an appropriate ASCII-art paperclip from microsoft.com)
This is a similar case as the >1024 cylinder install, which was a PC BIOS
issue. I believe /stand/sysinstall had a warning in place for that issue.
Kees Jan
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You are only young once,
but you can stay immature all your life.
Hi Jordan, Sysinstall being essentially your baby (don't try to deny it ;-), do you think things like the issue reported below should be in sysinstall? I'm not particularly in favor of it to be honest, but I'd appreciate your view. There are so many things that one could do wrong during install, this example is just one of them. Example: nothing stops you from creating much too small filesystems. People Just Should Read Docs, before loading the ammo and then shooting themselves in the foot. tnx Wilko On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:56:56AM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear Wilko, > > While I appreciate your janitorial :) efforts, I would like to ask you to > reopen this PR. > > The reason for me to open the PR was that it may scare off the > Alpha-newbies. > > Since this is an Alpha-specific problem, perhaps /stand/sysinstall should > have a warning if someone on an Alpha wants to shoot himself in the foot. > (Just a warning, because if people need their foot shot off they should be > able to do it). Something along the lines of: "Gee, looks like you're going > to create a non-booting disk layout, are you sure you want to do that?" (I'm > sure you can download an appropriate ASCII-art paperclip from microsoft.com) > > This is a similar case as the >1024 cylinder install, which was a PC BIOS > issue. I believe /stand/sysinstall had a warning in place for that issue. > > Kees Jan > > ================================================ > You are only young once, > but you can stay immature all your life. ---end of quoted text--- -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl State Changed From-To: closed->open Re-opening and assigning to jkh for comment on suggested sysinstall check for sanity on partition layout. Jordan, can we please have your thumbs up/down on this? Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-alpha->jkh Would like feedback from Mr Sysinstall ;) State Changed From-To: open->closed As we are facing an SRM restriction AND this issue has been documented in the FreeBSD docs now there is no point in keeping this PR open. Here is a suggested patch. My little Alpha is currenly busted, so
I tested on i386 and wrapped #ifdef __alpha__ around it before
diffing.
Yours,
Kees Jan
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Kees Jan Koster e-mail: kjkoster "at" kjkoster.org
www: http://www.kjkoster.org/
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File not found. Should I fake it? [Y/N]
State Changed From-To: closed->open Newly proposed patch has arrived. State Changed From-To: open->closed it needed to be done |
