20040502 snapshot + Dell PE3250

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:12 am, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:48 am, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:00:17PM +0530, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
> > > The /dev/da0p2 line shows negative numbers in 'Avail' column. Its
> > > capacity is 104%.
> > > Is this a bug? Or Am I missing something?
> >
> > The root file system is too small. Make it larger. You also need to
> > specify a mount point for the EFI partition so that the kernel gets
> > installed there. You cannot boot otherwise.
>
> No.  sysinstall only mounts /, it doesn't mount the other partitions.  The
> buggy code is in install.c in sysinstall where it does the newfs and mount
> bit since it doesn't check for top-level partitions being filesystems and
> swap, etc.  Also, there is _another_ bug that you can't create a filesystem
> for the remaining space.  sysinstall complains that the partition is too
> big. *sigh*  I'm going to try to work on at least the first bug today.

Actually, the second bug is a generic sysinstall/libdisk thing in that 
uncreated partitions aren't moved around to coalesce free space.  Anyways, 
there is a real second bug in that only EFI makes it into the 
generated /etc/fstab.  I have fixes for the two sysinstall bugs that I hope 
to test this afternoon.

> > The installer links /boot to /efi/boot, so you cannot mount the EFI
> > partition as /boot/efi. Set the mount point to /efi.
>
> It would be good to document this or better yet fix sysinstall to choose
> '/efi' as the default mount point for EFI.

Just a handy 'installation notes' from the ia64 platform page that says to 
choose a mount point for EFI != '/boot' would be good I think.

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