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| author | Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-08-09 22:41:57 +0000 |
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| committer | Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org> | 1996-08-09 22:41:57 +0000 |
| commit | e05835cfc727a58ce6542b03e005d75691982d22 (patch) | |
| tree | a53f15651b03262275f044afa580395d06dea267 /sbin | |
| parent | 105a3c98b92a4b9f0bf5ba813024d65fb1d5064b (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/i386/nextboot/nextboot.8 | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/nextboot/nextboot.8 | 5 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/i386/nextboot/nextboot.8 b/sbin/i386/nextboot/nextboot.8 index b301fbab04f7..1740711c4c1a 100644 --- a/sbin/i386/nextboot/nextboot.8 +++ b/sbin/i386/nextboot/nextboot.8 @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ nameblock is only consulted ONCE per boot. .Xr fdisk 8 .Sh BUGS The entire program should be made more user-friendly. +The option of whether to write back or not should be stored on the +disk and not a compile time option. I want to rethink this at some +later stage to make it co-exist with disks that do not have +a fdisk partitioning table (i.e. purely disklabel'd systems) + .Pp Whether to write back or not should be specified at run-time in the nameblock so that the boot blocks need not be altered to get this feature. diff --git a/sbin/nextboot/nextboot.8 b/sbin/nextboot/nextboot.8 index b301fbab04f7..1740711c4c1a 100644 --- a/sbin/nextboot/nextboot.8 +++ b/sbin/nextboot/nextboot.8 @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ nameblock is only consulted ONCE per boot. .Xr fdisk 8 .Sh BUGS The entire program should be made more user-friendly. +The option of whether to write back or not should be stored on the +disk and not a compile time option. I want to rethink this at some +later stage to make it co-exist with disks that do not have +a fdisk partitioning table (i.e. purely disklabel'd systems) + .Pp Whether to write back or not should be specified at run-time in the nameblock so that the boot blocks need not be altered to get this feature. |