Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:16:45 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> To: Dave Waddell <waddell@posc.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More on stand/newfs failure Message-ID: <1013.791072205@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Jan 95 15:45:10 CST." <Pine.SUN.3.90.950125151246.739B-100000@sys14>
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> about newfs /dev/rsd1a before failing with the message: > > Exec (/stand/newfs) failed, code = 5888. > < OK > I think I know the problem. You have a large disk here, but are using a very aggressive translation scheme (4MB cylinders would be my guess). FreeBSD just plain doesn't deal with this properly, and if you flipped over to the second screen (ALT-F2) you'd probably see newfs complaining bitterly about how it wants the fragment/block sizes to be considerably larger. We didn't take this into account with the 2.0 installation and didn't give the user (shame on us) a chance to enter parameters for newfs, or at the very least pick more intelligent values. Sigh. Let me talk to Poul-Henning and see if we can't generate you a custom set of boot floppies that don't have this problem! Thanks! Jordan
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