From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 12 05:52:42 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875601065687 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:52:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james-freebsd-current@jrv.org) Received: from mail.jrv.org (adsl-70-243-84-13.dsl.austtx.swbell.net [70.243.84.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E018A8FC1F for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:52:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from james-freebsd-current@jrv.org) Received: from kremvax.housenet.jrv (kremvax.housenet.jrv [192.168.3.124]) by mail.jrv.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3C5qRMt001227 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:52:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from james-freebsd-current@jrv.org) Authentication-Results: mail.jrv.org; domainkeys=pass (testing) header.from=james-freebsd-current@jrv.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=enigma; d=jrv.org; c=nofws; q=dns; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject: content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Kkoq288JPkqVvd61g2Qmq95VIQ0H0oDEHKQu0KLaSUiIhHM9CWDnWMbHJ6nDb1BRo 5re8qIWOHPFzp3TayxEpr7aekvG2O+5YeRr82faM6KkWmr/O/Y1auOdX8ghUhrI0iJH sNgod0SeUFKIbX+R1XyrKROgzWwyQMV45HvlTQA= Message-ID: <49E1819B.7000604@jrv.org> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:52:27 -0500 From: "James R. Van Artsdalen" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: can't boot 5.5 TB GPT disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:52:43 -0000 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...