Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:40:16 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c Message-ID: <20020107204016.A11458@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020107102644.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:26:44AM -0800 References: <20020107140906.A9972@freebie.xs4all.nl> <XFMail.020107102644.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:26:44AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 07-Jan-02 Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:44:29 PST, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >> > >> > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > >> > release/sysinstall install.c > >> > Log: > >> > MFC rev 1.316: revert to old newfs 8192/1024 block/frag sizes on the > >> > alpha > >> > >> This is required to avoid triggering whatever bugs exist in the Alpha > >> boot code that prevent it from using a root partition with a block size > >> other than 8192. > >> > >> If anyone has any great ideas for a low impact method of reducing the > >> effect of this regression to just the root partition on Alphas for > >> 4.5-RELEASE, I'm all ears. :-) > > > > Strange.. 2 hours ago I tested my RC0 snapshot (so without this revert) > > on a DS20 and it boots just fine after the install. > > > > What errros do you get? > > Humm, see the '-CURRENT boot1 broken?' thread in -alpha from a week or so ago. > Christan "naddy" <can't remember last name> noted that either boot1 or perhaps > the loader blew up when he reinstalled current with 16384/2048. Reformatting > the disk as 8192/1024 fixed his problem. OK... I got an extra disk and tried a 4.5RC0 install on my MiataGL here. # dumpfs / magic 11954 time Mon Jan 7 19:31:24 2002 id [ 3c39f491 5bc0397e ] cylgrp dynamic inodes 4.4BSD nbfree 5229 ndir 78 nifree 14972 nffree 430 ncg 1 ncyl 65 size 65540 blocks 64499 bsize 16384 shift 14 mask 0xffffc000 fsize 2048 shift 11 mask 0xfffff800 frag 8 shift 3 fsbtodb 2 ... # uname -a FreeBSD 4.5-RC1 FreeBSD 4.5-RC1 #0: Sun Jan 6 21:13:34 GMT 2002 root@ds10.wbnet:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC alpha This is a MiataGL600. So, sofar I have not been able to reproduce this phantom problem on DS20 and MiataGL. I would appreciate it if the people who were seeing this would try the RC snapshot I put at http://people.freebsd.org/~wilko/Alpha-snaps/ That one has the 16384/2048 default for the root fs. Sofar I see no reason to have 4.5R/alpha use a different block/frag size than 4.5R/x86 Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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