OK
On 2017 Nov 22 (Wed) at 23:20:46 +0100 (+0100), Stefan Sperling wrote:
:This flips the default response for the macppc disk layout question
:from HFS to MBR.
:
:I use an MBR on all my macppc machines. Booting OpenBSD is much simpler
:this way. I don't see why I cannot just hit enter for this question on
:new installs. I'd rather let Mac software archaeologists who wish to
:dual-boot an obsolete Mac OS with OpenBSD do the extra work.
:
:There is a follow-up question in md_prep_MBR which prints a warning
:and confirms this choice again. So I don't expect this change will
:cause anyone to overwrite an HFS partition table by accident.
:
:OK?
:
:Index: install.md
:===================================================================
:RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/macppc/ramdisk/install.md,v
:retrieving revision 1.71
:diff -u -p -r1.71 install.md
:--- install.md 28 Jul 2017 18:15:44 -0000 1.71
:+++ install.md 22 Nov 2017 22:11:54 -0000
:@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ md_prep_disklabel() {
: PARTTABLE=
: while [[ -z $PARTTABLE ]]; do
: resp=MBR
:- disk_has $_disk hfs && ask "Use HFS or MBR partition table?" HFS
:+ disk_has $_disk hfs && ask "Use HFS or MBR partition table?" MBR
: case $resp in
: [mM]*) md_prep_MBR $_disk && PARTTABLE=MBR ;;
: [hH]*) md_prep_HFS $_disk && PARTTABLE=HFS ;;
:
:
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