Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 20:05:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Yun-Ching Lee <yunching@sakura.res.cmu.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: i386/8436: boot.flp sysinstall crashes when probing Message-ID: <199810250005.UAA00884@sakura.res.cmu.edu>
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>Number: 8436
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: boot.flp sysinstall crashes when probing 2k/sector medium
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Oct 24 17:10:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Yun-Ching Lee
>Organization:
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386
>Environment:
System has AHA-2940AU
ID 0-4 are hard disks
ID 5 is Fujitsu DynaMO 640SE
ID 6 is CD-ROM
>Description:
Sysinstall crashes during probe when there is a 2k/sector formatted
medium in the MO drive. Error message on vty1 complains about not able
to handle 2048 byte/sector medium.
On vty0, /bin/init dies and system is forced to reboot.
>How-To-Repeat:
1. Mount a 2k/sector formatted MO cartridge, like 640MB 3.5" cartridge.
2. Boot with boot.flp.
3. Load kernel.
4. During sysinstall's probe of system devices, sysinstall dies when
probing the said MO cartridge.
5. System reboots.
>Fix:
Remove MO cartridge before booting boot.flp.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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