Date: 17 Jul 2006 03:38:12 -0000 From: helio@wyldryde.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/100420: boot1/boot2 lba error Message-ID: <20060717033812.32601.qmail@sovereign.shellfusion.net> Resent-Message-ID: <200607170340.k6H3e93M026409@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 100420 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: boot1/boot2 lba error >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 17 03:40:09 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: helio >Release: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 i386 >Organization: N/A >Environment: System: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Wed Jul 12 21:24:41 UTC 2006 helio@alpha.wyldryde.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC nVidia nForce2 UDMA133 controller, 305245MB <Seagate ST3320620A 3.AAC> hard drive >Description: during a boot drive preparation sysinstall partitions, formats and installs the dists correctly without throwing any errors, however during initial boot boot1 or boot2's attempts to load /boot/loader fail with "error 4 lba #", 0 is common but sometimes will alternate between two numbers (unfortunately I haven't written them down). GRUB also fails with an error message on inconsistant filesystem. This occurs on two drives of the same line to rule out a specific drive problem. A basic Debian install boots correctly and the drives are perfectly usable when newfs'd directly (without an MBR or bsdlabel). sysinstall seems to also lower the cylinder portion considerably, to (from my foggy memory) what looks to be the max positive value of a signed 16bit int, though I don't think it is the source of the problem. >How-To-Repeat: Install FreeBSD 6.1 or 6.0 onto a drive of model: Seagate ST3320620A >Fix: Strangely using GAG off a livecd will bootstrap it fine, but any other method does not, requiring another drive as the boot drive. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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