From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 7 10:27:51 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2A4437B41E for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:27:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26913 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2002 18:27:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Jan 2002 18:27:15 -0000 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: <20020107140906.A9972@freebie.xs4all.nl> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:26:44 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Jan-02 Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 04:44:29 PST, Sheldon Hearn wrote: >> >> > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) >> > release/sysinstall install.c >> > Log: >> > MFC rev 1.316: revert to old newfs 8192/1024 block/frag sizes on the >> > alpha >> >> This is required to avoid triggering whatever bugs exist in the Alpha >> boot code that prevent it from using a root partition with a block size >> other than 8192. >> >> If anyone has any great ideas for a low impact method of reducing the >> effect of this regression to just the root partition on Alphas for >> 4.5-RELEASE, I'm all ears. :-) > > Strange.. 2 hours ago I tested my RC0 snapshot (so without this revert) > on a DS20 and it boots just fine after the install. > > What errros do you get? Humm, see the '-CURRENT boot1 broken?' thread in -alpha from a week or so ago. Christan "naddy" noted that either boot1 or perhaps the loader blew up when he reinstalled current with 16384/2048. Reformatting the disk as 8192/1024 fixed his problem. He got a kernel stack not valid halt into SRM after the 'Loading /boot/loader' line. -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message