From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jan 9 13: 9:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A14637B404 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 11013 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2002 21:09:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jan 2002 21:09:24 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (root@laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g09L9PK58623; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:09:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@laptop.baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by laptop.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g09L8pw06359; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:08:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA23E@l04.research.kpn.com> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:08:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Koster, K.J." Subject: RE: -CURRENT boot1 broken? Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, "naddy@mips.inka.de" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 09-Jan-02 Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear All, > >> >> > > This suggests that boot1 is broken. >> > >> > Ugh, it shouldn't be. :( >> >> Well, I guess it isn't. When I moved my system to a new disk, I >> created all filesystems with 16384/2048. Pretty useless for the >> root filesystem, I admit, except for consistency's sake. Turns out >> that boot1 doesn't handle this. Jumping through some hoops I have >> moved / back to 8192/1024 and it works fine now. *Sigh* >> > I ran into this myself a few years back (on i386). > > At the very least the loader might detect the block size mismatch and > complain. On the other hand: "man newfs" tells us: > > BUGS > The boot code of FreeBSD assumes that the file system that carries the > kernel has blocks of 8 kilobytes and fragments of 1 kilobyte. You will > not be able to boot from a file system that uses another size. > > IIRC this was put in after I whined about it for a bit. :) Can someone test Ian's patch to boot1 on a 16/2 root to see if it works ok? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message