SUCCESS! was: Re: installing from CD

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:28 AM, John Baldwin wrote:

> Looks like this might address that:
>
> Index: usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (revision 194698)
> +++ usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (working copy)
> @@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@
> #ifdef __ia64__
>     AutoEfi = NULL;
>     if (EfiChunk == NULL) {
> -       sz = 100 * ONE_MEG;
> +       sz = 200 * ONE_MEG;
>        AutoEfi = Create_Chunk_DWIM(label_chunk_info[here].c->disk,
>            label_chunk_info[here].c, sz, efi, 0, 0);
>        if (AutoEfi == NULL) {
>
> Marcel, do you think this change is ok to bump the EFI part up to  
> 200MB for
> 8.0?

Yes, definitely. I would bump it to 400MB though. That avoids problems
when users build and install a GENERIC kernel themselves (i.e. we can
have a /boot/kernel and /boot/kernel.old with room for growth).

Thanks!

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt at mac.com