On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 09:47:36PM +0100, David Laight wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:33:21PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > > > Log Message: > > PR/26201: Jukka Salmi: sysinst dumps core on NetBSD 2.0_BETA i386 > > The problem is that current_cylsize is used in the menu to select > > rounding, and it is un-initialized at this point. > > XXX: Must be pulled up to 2.0 > > Needs to be fixed correctly first... > > Rightly or wrongly, partitions have always been aligned to BIOS cylinders > on i386 - the committed change (unless I've misread it) uses the > 'real' (aka faked by the disk) cylinder size instead. Does "Needs to be fixed correctly" really go with "Rightly or wrongly"? :-) While I think that a change like this perhaps should be documented, it doesn't sound like a bad change. Take care, Bill
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