From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 7 11:40:31 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7341F37B404; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g07JeGk11507; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:40:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:40:16 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c Message-ID: <20020107204016.A11458@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20020107140906.A9972@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:26:44AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:26:44AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. OK... I got an extra disk and tried a 4.5RC0 install on my MiataGL here. # dumpfs / magic 11954 time Mon Jan 7 19:31:24 2002 id [ 3c39f491 5bc0397e ] cylgrp dynamic inodes 4.4BSD nbfree 5229 ndir 78 nifree 14972 nffree 430 ncg 1 ncyl 65 size 65540 blocks 64499 bsize 16384 shift 14 mask 0xffffc000 fsize 2048 shift 11 mask 0xfffff800 frag 8 shift 3 fsbtodb 2 ... # uname -a FreeBSD 4.5-RC1 FreeBSD 4.5-RC1 #0: Sun Jan 6 21:13:34 GMT 2002 root@ds10.wbnet:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC alpha This is a MiataGL600. So, sofar I have not been able to reproduce this phantom problem on DS20 and MiataGL. I would appreciate it if the people who were seeing this would try the RC snapshot I put at http://people.freebsd.org/~wilko/Alpha-snaps/ That one has the 16384/2048 default for the root fs. Sofar I see no reason to have 4.5R/alpha use a different block/frag size than 4.5R/x86 Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message