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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: julian@ref.tfs.com, waarbau@super.org
Subject: Re: 0412 SNAP install hangs after 'changing root device ...'
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, tom@batc.allied.com
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>It looks as if we have a problem with the new slice code that went
>out in the last SNAP.

How does sysinstall handle slices?  Not?

>My guess is that certain disklabel/BIOS-data/MBR combinations 
>are interpretted differently than before, leading to 
>an inability to read the root partition...

>> 
>> 
>> 3. During the install of 0412 newfs produces the following warning 
>> message 'Calculated sectors per cylinder 4096 disagrees with disklabel 
>> (2046). No other warnings/errors are produced during the install.

>I think this is possibly a clue..

Probably not.  This is a normal warning.  newfs now always uses 4096
sectors per cylinder by default.

Bruce