From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jul 21 20:37:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA8137B80C; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 20:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14399; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:37:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA53563; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:37:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 23:37:15 -0400 (EDT) To: Mike Smith Cc: mjacob@feral.com, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 In-Reply-To: <200007220014.RAA01963@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200007220014.RAA01963@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14713.5018.240866.520423@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith writes: > > Er, if you have been prompted for a terminal type, sysinstall is > *already*running*, and it has probably exited. Can you be MORE SPECIFIC > about your errors messages? Did you look at the boot log that Matt posted last week? I've uploaded it to Freefall & left it in ~gallatin/going_nowhere in case you misplaced it. To sum up, sysinstall complains bitterly about the existing state of the disk labels, then dies. Here's the tail end: da4s4: slice starts beyond end of the disk: rejecting it da1: raw partition size != slice size da1: start 0, end 8380079, size 8380080 da1c: start 0, end 4294967295, size 0 da1: raw partition size != slice size da1: start 0, end 8380079, size 8380080 da1c: start 0, end 4294967295, size 0 init died (signal 0, exit 1) panic: Going nowhere without my init! syncing disks... done Uptime: 1m1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- Rebooting... I think this may be a transient bug in sysinstall, and may not actually be in the loader/bootstrap at all. For what its worth, the sysinstall ran just fine on my AS500, which was configured as da0: linux/alpha (BSD label, SRM bootable, elf /sbin/init) da1: dd'ed ISO RC2 image da2: (unknown; haven't looked at that disk) Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message