Subject: port-i386/28660: Need to add to fdisk manual: how to remove bootmenu text from some partition
To: None <port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Alexey Kovyrshin <orb@fenixhost.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/14/2004 20:30:00
>Number: 28660
>Category: port-i386
>Synopsis: how to remove bootmenu text from some partition
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: port-i386-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Dec 14 20:30:00 +0000 2004
>Originator: orb@fenixhost.com
>Release: NetBSD 2.99.10
>Organization:
Best regards,
Alexey Kovyrshin
orb_@#netbsd@irc.freenode.net
>Environment:
System: NetBSD orb.localdomain 2.99.10 NetBSD 2.99.10 (orb) #4: Thu Dec 9 20:35:23 MSK 2004 root@orb.localdomain:
/d1/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/orb i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
Assume you have mistakenly assigned some partition a bootmenu name for example:
1: Linux native (sysid 131)
bootmenu: Linux
start 10000368, size 75706848 (36966 MB, Cyls 9921-85027)
And then you decided to not boot from that partition, but you have to leave the data along. The question: how to
do that?
>How-To-Repeat:
Just try to create some partition using "fdisk -u wd0", for example, name it, try to remove the name.
>Fix:
Just just press space and enter on the bootmenu name question.
I propose add this to fdisk manual.
Thank you.