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| author | ceri <ceri@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-10-08 21:16:00 +0000 |
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| committer | ceri <ceri@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-10-08 21:16:00 +0000 |
| commit | 931196e1400f6e81cc754d71d00ec487c9b3ae48 (patch) | |
| tree | 1e72e851d403ae0971f976dfb3d61d8d36dab12f /usr.sbin | |
| parent | bd713f224f205afa56abb4df2f13b114002cb621 (diff) | |
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When using sysinstall on a running system and editing a disk label
fails, suggest setting kern.geom.debugflags to 16.
PR: bin/94409
Submitted by: Markus Oestreicher <m punkt oe at x dash trader dot de>
MFC after: 10 days
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c index 68dd987..fa4b39f 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c +++ b/usr.sbin/sysinstall/disks.c @@ -879,7 +879,13 @@ diskPartitionWrite(dialogMenuItem *self) msgNotify("Writing partition information to drive %s", d->name); if (!Fake && Write_Disk(d)) { - msgConfirm("ERROR: Unable to write data to disk %s!", d->name); + if (RunningAsInit) { + msgConfirm("ERROR: Unable to write data to disk %s!", d->name); + } else { + msgConfirm("ERROR: Unable to write data to disk %s!\n\n" + "To edit the labels on a running system set\n" + "sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and try again.", d->name); + } return DITEM_FAILURE; } } |
