Date: Wed, 27 Mar 96 19:49:38 PST From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install Message-ID: <9602278279.AA827981569@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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After tweaking the translation settings on the controller, I was able to boot but still did not have a stable system. I was experiencing coredumps while running certain apps (e.g. mail), indicating that something was still wrong. Here's another clue to what might be going on. I partitioned the drive as "all FreeBSD" without a standard partition table, hoping that this would bypass problems with trying to stick to the MS-DOS standard. Using the "Novice" installation mode, step by step, I sliced up the disk into areas for root, swap, /var, /usr, and /home. I then turned on debugging messages and watched the second virtual TTY during installation. During newfs, error messages appeared as each file system was created, saying that the number of sectors per cylinder (4096) diagreed with that in the disk label (4032). The Ultrastor is a translating controller, and I had entered the geometry 969/64/63 in fdisk. The product of the last two numbers is (of course) 4032 -- the number of sectors per cylinder after translation. Why does the software think there are more? Does this message relate to the problem? If the message indicates an error in newfs, it might account for the disk errors and application coredumps I'm getting after installation. Authors: What do you think? Is this a bug? If so, is there a way to work around it (perhaps by specifying parameters to newfs)? --Brett Glass
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