Bug#273768: parted issues (aboot)
On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I have no explanation for the VM errors you received; I don't believe
> this is related to the partitioning question.
On subsequent thought, I do notice that the logs generated are quite
large. Perhaps the VM problems were due to running out of memory because
the ramdisk was full of log messages. This system had 64M.
WRT the disklabel question, I really don't see a way to avoid prompting the
user with the option of using disklabel versus DOS partitions, other than
making disklabel the default on alpha, and then you still have to deal
with drives that have resident DOS partition tables. Whatever the solution
ends up being, the situation with aboot deserves coverage in the
installation manual.
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Brian
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