CVS commit: src

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    src
Committed By:   tls
Date:           Wed Jan 24 19:46:26 UTC 2007

Modified Files:
        src/doc: CHANGES
        src/sys/arch/amd64/conf: GENERIC
        src/sys/arch/i386/conf: GENERIC GENERIC_LAPTOP GENERIC_TINY INSTALL
            INSTALL_LAPTOP INSTALL_SMALL INSTALL_TINY INSTALL_XEN2_DOMU

Log Message:
Remove option COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART from default kernels.  NetBSD has
not used partition ID 0x165 for many, many years, and the presence of
this option in INSTALL kernels can cause overwriting of existing FreeBSD
installations when sysinst writes back the disklabel.  Those with very,
very old NetBSD installations may find that they must update their fdisk
partition tables to use partition ID 0x169 for their NetBSD partitions.

This seems like the best of a number of lousy choices for dealing with
this problem.  Sysinst should perhaps grow code that asks whether an
existing 0x165 partition should be converted.

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To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.782 -r1.783 src/doc/CHANGES
cvs rdiff -r1.124 -r1.125 src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC
cvs rdiff -r1.805 -r1.806 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC
cvs rdiff -r1.219 -r1.220 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC_LAPTOP
cvs rdiff -r1.102 -r1.103 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC_TINY
cvs rdiff -r1.302 -r1.303 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/INSTALL
cvs rdiff -r1.113 -r1.114 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/INSTALL_LAPTOP
cvs rdiff -r1.131 -r1.132 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/INSTALL_SMALL
cvs rdiff -r1.108 -r1.109 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/INSTALL_TINY
cvs rdiff -r1.10 -r1.11 src/sys/arch/i386/conf/INSTALL_XEN2_DOMU

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