Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:56:35 +0200 From: Ondra Holecek <bln@deprese.net> To: Allan Fields <bsd@afields.ca> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GBDE, problems using gbde_swap Message-ID: <41781473.2040804@deprese.net> In-Reply-To: <20041021132944.GE74820@afields.ca> References: <4173A649.9000208@deprese.net> <20041020183001.GA74820@afields.ca> <41777BCC.4000100@deprese.net> <20041021132944.GE74820@afields.ca>
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Allan Fields wrote: >On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:05:16AM +0200, Ondra Holecek wrote: > > >>Allan Fields wrote: >> >> >>>On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:17:29PM +0200, Ondra Holecek wrote: >>> >>> >>>>hello, >>>> >>>>I wanted to use encrypted swap (gbde_swap in /etc/rc.d) on 5.3-BETA7, >>>>but after second reboot, the system did not boot - it finised with boot >>>>manager (F1 - FreeBSD). >>>> >>>>I wrote problem report where you can read details: >>>> >>>>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=72812 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Category: kern >>>>>Responsible: freebsd-bugs >>>>>Synopsis: GBDE, problems using gbde_swap >>>>>Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 18 11:00:44 GMT 2004 >>>>> >>>>> >>>Can you follow up the PR with more details such as output >>>of: >>>fdisk /dev/ad0 >>> >>> >>> >>******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* >>parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: >>cylinders=38760 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) >> >>Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 >>parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: >>cylinders=38760 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) >> >>Media sector size is 512 >>Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 >>Information from DOS bootblock is: >>The data for partition 1 is: >>sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) >> start 63, size 39070017 (19077 Meg), flag 80 (active) >> beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; >> end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63 >> >> >> >>>disklabel /dev/ad0s1 >>> >>> >> >># /dev/ad0s1: >>8 partitions: >># size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] >> a: 2097152 1048576 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 >> b: 1048576 0 swap >> c: 39070017 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, >>don't edit >> d: 4194304 3145728 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 >> e: 31729985 7340032 4.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 >> >> >> >>>You can boot from the install or live CD and run a fixit shell and >>> >>> >>>from there should be able to get this info. >> >>Now I have it repaired (i have to work on this machine), but i saved >>fdisk and disklabel output before "reparing" (tar -cpf; newfs >>/dev/ad0s1a; tar -xpf) >> >> >> >>>Also try reinstalling the boot blocks using: >>>mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt >>>boot0cfg -Bv -b /mnt/boot/boot0 ad0 >>> >>> >>> >>This didn't help, i had to do newfs on root (a) partition >> >> > >After the boot0cfg, or anyway, after using only gbde swap? > > > I booted from livecd, chroot to my fs on harddisk, did boot0cfg -Bv, reboot, didn't help, same as before. Then booted from livecd again, tar-ed rootfs, newfs, un-tar-ed, reboot, ok - normal boot >>>If it boots fine, then it is possibly an issue with corrupted >>>boot blocks. >>> >>> > >But it does fix the boot problem when they are resinstalled? > > >
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