Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:35:21 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd install quirk, or am I doing something wrong? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312110313.12793B-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980310120243.15642A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote:
> Something I've noticed of the recent2.2-SNAPs, and need an answer to.
>
> When doing an upgrade using 2.2-980228-SNAP or 2.2-980309-SNAP over a
> 2.2-9712??-SNAP, (and I've seen this with other versions of the SNAPs),
> when I go to the screen where I'm supposed to mount the various slices,
> I'm looking at a blank screen. Now, if I quit, I loose everything
> (learned this on a development machine and lost 1.6G of stuff, which
> since I heed warnings, was backed up, for the most part), the
> (dos level) partition is still there, but the slices are gone.
>
> If on the other hand, I hit reset, I can reboot the old OS just fine.
>
> Is this just me (I've seen it on two machines and three different SNAPs in
> the last month), or is something wrong? I'd be surprized if something like
> this went unnoticed for this long, so I suspect it's just me.
I just found out that I had become unsubscribed from this list at some
point.
Anyway, to follow up on myself, the problem still exists in the
980311-BETA. I have found the following out though.
1) /stand/sysinstall after installation works fine, it's only the
sysinstall off the boot floppy that exhibits this problem.
2) It's not a change in format. I can do a new install, then using the
same boot disk that I installed from, attempt to do an upgrade, and I
won't see anything from the Label Editor.
Here's some more information on the system I have set aside just to
diagnose this problem (Unfortunately I don't have time at work to try to
debug this myself, certainly not before 2.2.6 is due): This machine was
freshly installed using 2.2-980309-SNAP, then upgraded to 2.2-980311-BETA,
though I had to use a 2.2.5 Boot disk to do the upgrade.
The one thing I notice is that the bios and dmesg both say that the disk
is 1120 cylinders, 16 heads, 59 sectors, but disklabel halves the number
of cylinders and doubles the heads. I also see this problem on a machine
with an AHA2940UW, which is not in the bios, and had the geometry
8668/64/32. (I also just noticed that it is still running the SNAP kenel,
not the BETA one, even though the timestamp on the /kernel file is the
time of the BETA install).
Label Editor displays (when run from /stand/sysinstall):
FreeBSD Disklabel Editor
Disk: wd0 Partition name: wd0s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----
wd0s1a <none> 32MB *
wd0s1b swap 33MB SWAP
wd0s1e <none> 30MB *
wd0s1f <none> 420MB *
# disklabel /dev/rwd0c
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: wd0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 59
tracks/cylinder: 32
sectors/cylinder: 1888
cylinders: 559
sectors/unit: 1057221
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 34*)
b: 69328 65536 swap # (Cyl. 34*- 71*)
c: 1057221 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 559*)
e: 61440 134864 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 71*- 103*)
f: 860917 196304 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 103*- 559*)
dmesg returns
Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 2.2-980309-SNAP #0: Mon Mar 9 19:30:34 GMT 1998
jkh@make.ican.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
CPU: AMD Enhanced Am486DX4 Write-Back (486-class CPU)
Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x494 Stepping=4
Features=0x1<FPU>
real memory = 12582912 (12288K bytes)
avail memory = 10297344 (10056K bytes)
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
ed0 at 0x300-0x31f irq 10 on isa
ed0: address 08:00:00:20:73:68, type NE2000 (16 bit)
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <QUANTUM LPS540A>
wd0: 516MB (1057280 sectors), 1120 cyls, 16 heads, 59 S/T, 512 B/S
npx0 flags 0x1 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
changing root device to wd0s2a
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