Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:08:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, "naddy@mips.inka.de" <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: RE: -CURRENT boot1 broken? Message-ID: <XFMail.020109130850.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA23E@l04.research.kpn.com>
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On 09-Jan-02 Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear All, > >> >> > > This suggests that boot1 is broken. >> > >> > Ugh, it shouldn't be. :( >> >> Well, I guess it isn't. When I moved my system to a new disk, I >> created all filesystems with 16384/2048. Pretty useless for the >> root filesystem, I admit, except for consistency's sake. Turns out >> that boot1 doesn't handle this. Jumping through some hoops I have >> moved / back to 8192/1024 and it works fine now. *Sigh* >> > I ran into this myself a few years back (on i386). > > At the very least the loader might detect the block size mismatch and > complain. On the other hand: "man newfs" tells us: > > BUGS > The boot code of FreeBSD assumes that the file system that carries the > kernel has blocks of 8 kilobytes and fragments of 1 kilobyte. You will > not be able to boot from a file system that uses another size. > > IIRC this was put in after I whined about it for a bit. :) Can someone test Ian's patch to boot1 on a 16/2 root to see if it works ok? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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