From e05835cfc727a58ce6542b03e005d75691982d22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Elischer Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 22:41:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] slight man page additions re: deficiencies --- sbin/i386/nextboot/nextboot.8 | 5 +++++ sbin/nextboot/nextboot.8 | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) 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.