Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:06:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 Message-ID: <200007220606.XAA03737@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:37:15 EDT." <14713.5018.240866.520423@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> Did you look at the boot log that Matt posted last week? I've > uploaded it to Freefall & left it in ~gallatin/going_nowhere in case > you misplaced it. > > To sum up, sysinstall complains bitterly about the existing state of > the disk labels, then dies. Here's the tail end: > > > da4s4: slice starts beyond end of the disk: rejecting it > da1: raw partition size != slice size > da1: start 0, end 8380079, size 8380080 > da1c: start 0, end 4294967295, size 0 > da1: raw partition size != slice size > da1: start 0, end 8380079, size 8380080 > da1c: start 0, end 4294967295, size 0 These are all messages from the kernel, not sysinstall unfortunately. > init died (signal 0, exit 1) > panic: Going nowhere without my init! There are a few places where sysinstall might exit(1), but they almost all print something, and none of them are applicable here. Libdisk uses err(1,...) a lot, but again that should have printed something to stderr. Unless stderr has been redirected at this point. An easy test would be to replace all the err(1,...) in libdisk with something else. > I think this may be a transient bug in sysinstall, and may not > actually be in the loader/bootstrap at all. From the output you reference: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c ... /stand/sysinstall running as init on serial console the loader has nothing to do with this. I suspect libdisk, but it's going to be difficult to track down without finding stderr. If someone has a) a prebuilt release area and b) a machine with a disk config that can reproduce this (again, Matt, I don't have anything like this and a remote setup won't do the trick), we can try to track it down... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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