Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 23:05:44 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gtc@aloft.att.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: bugs@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: vm_bounce_alloc during initial installation (writing disk info) Message-ID: <199601191205.XAA03994@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> And my answer was yes - my partition size *is* just over 500MB. >> The location of the partition, which might be significant, is at the end >> of a 4GB disk. If I recall, however, I believe the end of the partition was >> just _under_ the 4GB boundary. This may be caused by garbage block numbers in (or for) the extended partition tables. I think preposterously large values are caught early enough but negative ones aren't. Negative ones are unlikely to causes as much damage as slightly wrong ones (which can't be checked for) so it's not clear that they are worth checking. Bruce
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