From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 18 8:15:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1394637B6CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:15:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id RAA30887 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:08:01 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id RAA05300 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:06:10 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C1256889.0058F6D4 ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:11:43 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 17:11:31 +0100 Subject: Can't install 3.4-Stable in the second partition of a small IDE drive ! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have just downloaded the latest, greatest -Stable (18-feb-00) and I can't get it to load as the second BSD version on my machine. I have a specific partitioning scheme : ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=827 heads=32 sectors/track=63 (2016 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=827 heads=32 sectors/track=63 (2016 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,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 100737 (49 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 49/ sector 63/ head 31 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 100800, size 100800 (49 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 50/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 99/ sector 63/ head 31 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 201600, size 1465632 (715 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 100/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 826/ sector 63/ head 31 The data for partition 4 is: That is : two root partitions at the beginning of the drive, then a big slice where I have one 40Meg-swap, two 20M-/var and then two /usr partitions. I have already installed 4.0 -Current from 14/feb in this manner : pc-bsd103# mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, writes: sync 12 async 69, reads: sync 242 async 9) /dev/ad0s3g on /usr (ufs, local, writes: sync 6 async 143, reads: sync 726 asyn) /dev/ad0s3e on /var (ufs, local, writes: sync 89 async 158, reads: sync 28 asyn) procfs on /proc (procfs, local) Now, when I try to install 3.4's root partition in wd0s2, the install program complains : "this region canot be used for your root partition...please choose another location" I have already fallen into the "1024 cylinders" problem, but it is not applicable here (the whole disk is 827-cylinder-large - note : the ata driver in the dmesg sees the disk as a 1654/16/63 beast). So : what can be done to overcome this surprising limitation ? TfH PS : here is the -Current dmesg : Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-20000214-CURRENT #0: Fri Feb 18 12:51:31 CET 2000 herbelot@pc-bsd103.val9900.telspace.alcatel.fr:/usr/src/sys/compile/P5-ep Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 74539122 Hz CPU: Pentium/P54C (74.54-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x526 Stepping = 6 Features=0x1bf real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) config> q avail memory = 29999104 (29296K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc029c000. Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc029c09c. Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug md0: Malloc disk npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 lnc0: port 0xfce0-0xfcff mem 0xfedffc00-0xfedffc1f irq 9 at device 8.0 on pci0 lnc0: PCnet-PCI II address 08:00:09:bb:26:57 lnc0: driver is using old-style compatability shims vga-pci0: mem 0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff at device 13. 0 on pci0 isab0: at device 15.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 ata-pci0: port 0xfcd0-0xfcdf at device 15.1 on pci0 ata0 at 0x01f0 irq 14 on ata-pci0 devclass_alloc_unit: lnc0 already exists, using next available unit number fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60-0x6f on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 sc0: on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x200> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0 sio1: type 16550A ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppi0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port plip0: on ppbus0 lnc1: not probed (disabled) ep0: <3Com 3C509-Combo EtherLink III> at port 0x280-0x28f irq 5 on isa0 ep0: Ethernet address 00:60:08:78:98:cb ad0: 814MB [1654/16/63] at ata0-master using PIO3 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message