From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 14:00:10 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA03154 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 14:00:10 -0700 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA03139 ; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 14:00:05 -0700 Received: (from julian@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id NAA17732; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:59:54 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199504272059.NAA17732@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: 0412 SNAP install hangs after 'changing root device ...' To: waarbau@super.org (William A. Arbaugh) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, questions@FreeBSD.org, tom@batc.allied.com In-Reply-To: from "William A. Arbaugh" at Apr 27, 95 11:27:16 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1478 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It looks as if we have a problem with the new slice code that went out in the last SNAP. 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.. > > 4. Booting the 0412 SNAP kernel placed on the disk by the install process > with -v prints out the BIOS geometries and then hangs. Looking at the > sources for 0322- that tells me that it's getting to cpu_startup() but > not much more. The geometries reported are: > > BIOS Geometries: 0:3ff0208 > 1:4f010f > 2:4f010f > 3:4f010f > 4:4f010f > 5:4f010f > 6:4f010f > 7:4f010f > 0 accounted for > > Booting the 0322 fixit floppy with -v produces the same geometry > information. I haven't a clue if that info is good/bad etc. > > 5. Anyone have a 0412 based fixit floppy? I'm stuck and I'm not sure how > to proceed. phk just made one... > > bill > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Arbaugh "Waste of time is the most > waarbau@super.org extravagant of all expenses" > waa@dsl.cis.upenn.edu -Theophrastus > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > >