Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:52:27 -0500 From: "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: can't boot 5.5 TB GPT disk Message-ID: <49E1819B.7000604@jrv.org>
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FreeBSD bigback.housenet.jrv 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0 r190917:
Sat Apr 11 19:48:25 CDT 2009
james@bigback.housenet.jrv:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
I can't boot a GPT partitioned 5.5 TB disc, where the UFS root partition
is near the end of the disk. If I put another disk in the system and
mount root from the GPT disk the system runs fine.
The 5.5 TB disk is partitioned:
bigback# gpart show
=> 34 11718748093 ad6 GPT (5.5T)
34 6 - free - (3.0K)
40 409600 1 efi (200M)
409640 11634190128 2 !6a898cc3-1dd2-11b2-99a6-080020736631
(5.4T)
11634599768 128 3 freebsd-boot (64K)
11634599896 4194304 4 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
11638794200 33554432 5 freebsd-swap (16G)
11672348632 4194304 6 freebsd-ufs (2.0G)
11676542936 33554432 7 freebsd-ufs (16G)
11710097368 8388608 8 freebsd-ufs (4.0G)
11718485976 262151 - free - (128M)
If I try to boot it (disk1 so pressing F5 here) it fails looking like
this (there is no UART available so this is typed from a pic, with typos):
F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1
Default: F1
BTX Loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS drive D: is disk1
BIOS 630kb/3136864kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(james@bigback.housenet.jrv, Sat Apr 11 08:19:00 CDT 2009
\
can't load 'kernel'
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more details
OK
To get this far suggests to me that PMBR and GPTBOOT worked, and that
the problem is elsewhere. Suggestions? Could there be a 32-bit
truncation lurking in a loader somewhere?
PS. Note that the "lsdev' command causes the loader to crash while
printing out the info on the big disk, right after the EFI line for ad6p1...
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