Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 08:18:35 +0100 From: Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de> To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DP1 release candidate 1 Message-ID: <20020323071834.GB32918@nathan.ruhr.de> In-Reply-To: <200203230002.g2N02k072474@bmah.dyndns.org> References: <20020321195254.N90182@locore.ca> <p0510152cb8c161daca4b@[128.113.24.47]> <200203230002.g2N02k072474@bmah.dyndns.org>
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 04:02:46PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> I was trying to help this document along as best I could, given that I
> don't actually have access to a sparc64 machine. I'll be happy to do
> the DocBook-fu and other editing, if someone (e.g. you) gives content.
I noticed a small problem in the disklabel section: It tells you
that the partition size must be a multiple of the number of sectors
per cylinder. This statement is incomplete: With 1008 sectors per
cylinder, entering a partition size of 1008 into the disklabel editor
will not work. Fix below.
I've also added a paragraph telling the user to run disklabel again
and check the cylinder number display. This is a very easy method
of checking your partition boundaries.
/s/Udo
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/sparc64/install.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.8
diff -u -r1.8 install.sgml
--- install.sgml 23 Mar 2002 00:24:32 -0000 1.8
+++ install.sgml 23 Mar 2002 06:58:36 -0000
@@ -459,9 +459,9 @@
information.</para>
<para>To make sure the restriction mentioned above is met, the
- size of each partition must be a multiple of the number of
- sectors per cylinder as shown in the information that is
- presented in the editor (1008 in the example above).</para>
+ size of each partition must be a multiple of the product of the number of
+ sectors per cylinder and the number of bytes per sector as shown in the information that is
+ presented in the editor (516096 (1008*512) in the example above).</para>
<para>When you are done, save your changes and quit the
editor. This will cause the disk label to be written. </para>
@@ -471,6 +471,16 @@
this disk must have their respective partition entries in the
old and new label match <emphasis>exactly</emphasis>, or they
will be lost.</para></warning>
+
+ <para>If you want to double-check that your partions end on
+ cylinder boundaries, run <command>disklabel -e
+ <replaceable>device</replaceable></command> again. The
+ editor will display the cylinders used by a particular
+ partition on the right hand side of the screen. If any of
+ these numbers show an <literal>*</literal> next to them, the
+ partition does <emphasis>NOT</emphasis> start or end on a
+ cylinder boundary. You <emphasis>MUST</emphasis> fix these
+ or your system will not work.</para>
</step>
<step>
/s/Udo
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