From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 23 12:24:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01929 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:24:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA01877; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA04327; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:24:19 +0200 (MET DST) To: Bill Fenner cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Chris Csanady" , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 11:32:09 PDT." <96Sep23.113217pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:24:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4325.843506658@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <96Sep23.113217pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writ es: >In message <6054.843037098@time.cdrom.com> Jordan wrote: >>I think you neglected to RTFM during the install and made a root >>filesystem which spanned cyl 1024! :-( > >I think that everyone has too much confidence in this error message not being >a bug in the boot code! When I reported this a long time ago, everyone told m >e that my root partition must span cyl 1024, when it doesn't. Chris even incl >uded his disklabel in his original message; his disk has 1002 cylinders, and h >is root partition is on 654-685... It can also mean that your root filesystem badly needs a fsck... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.