Subject: Re: WORKAROUND worked (Re: 1.3.3 i386 install crash and burn)
To: Ken Harrenstien <klh@us.oracle.com>
From: Guenther Grau <Guenther.Grau@bk.bosch.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/04/1999 11:06:09
Ken Harrenstien wrote:
[...]
> One other suggestion for improvement: the screen about "real" versus
> "fake" geometries needs to be re-worded and made consistent with the
> doc (which isn't bad). In retrospect it is talking about the fact that
> the SCSI-reported geometry doesn't add up to the SCSI-reported total
> number of sectors, as is typical for ZBR disks. This has nothing to do
> with the MBR or BIOS but that isn't clear.
>
> Furthermore the use of the word "real" is very confusing because in the
> doc it means "the geometry NetBSD uses" which hasn't yet been decided!
> I had to struggle with alternative theories before deciding that what
> it really meant on this screen was "as reported from the drive"; i.e.
> not "as reported from BIOS" or "as reported from the MBR" or "NetBSD
> real geometry".
Well, how about you write the new documentation and submit it via
send-pr? You just had problems with something and someone helped
you solving them. Then why not write down how to solve the problems
or prevent them in the first place by - from your and probably other
users point of view - clearer and better documentation. :-)
Guenther