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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:58:50 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cannot boot after install 
Message-ID:  <3317.827989130@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 19:49:38 PST." <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.

Is it only mail that coredumps, or more than one app?

> 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).

This is just a warning, and not actually an error - everyone gets that
one.  We should probably just remove the message.

> 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?

I don't think so.

						Jordan



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