Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 14:35:29 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.0-R install & partitioning 4gb disk problem Message-ID: <Pine.VUL.3.91.951231135319.5413B-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu>
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Greetings,
My system is an ASUS p55tp4xe w/SC200 ncr scsi. I have a seagate hawk
1.05 gb disk as sd0 and a Micropolis 3243-mz 4.095 gb disk as sd1.
I can create a working 2.1.0 system only so long as I use the 4gb disk as
a single giant partition. I have done this and the system comes up and is
happy with the 4gb drive. I am using 4095/64/32 for the disk geometry on
the micropolis, as suggested by the installation program.
However, when I use the installation procedure to partition and label the
4gb disk into multiple slices, I run into trouble as soon as I continue
with the part of the installation which actually writes the labels to the
disks (I am NOT using 'w' from within FDISK!):
1) The installation panics and complains that the init process has
died. On the debugging screen I get a message similar this:
(I couldn't find a way to stop the auto-reboot and preserve the
screen for very long so the numbers might be a bit off.)
ncr?: scatter/gather failed (residue=209687000)
sd1: oops not queued
init died
2) On the next invocation of the install utility, booted from
floppy, I see the following in the debug screen before I
actively do anything:
sds1: raw partition size != slice size
sds1: start 32, end 8386559, size 8386528
sdsi1c: start 32, end 65535, size 65504
I haven't tried to fdisk/label the big disk outside of the installation
program, is there a chance that might work better? Any suggestions?
-Chris
Here are some snippets from /var/log/messages
opus /kernel: FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 16 10:47:14 1995
opus /kernel: jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
opus /kernel: CPU: 99-MHz Pentium 735\90 or 815\100 (Pentium-class CPU)
opus /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5
opus /kernel: Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC>
opus /kernel: real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
opus /kernel: avail memory = 30572544 (29856K bytes)
[snip ...]
opus /kernel: ncr0 <ncr 53c810 scsi> rev 1 int a irq 11 on pci0:12
opus /kernel: ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
opus /kernel: (ncr0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST31230N 0300" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
opus /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access
opus /kernel: sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8.
opus /kernel: 1010MB (2069860 512 byte sectors)
opus /kernel: (ncr0:1:0): "MICROP 3243-19MZ Q4D HT02" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
opus /kernel: sd1(ncr0:1:0): Direct-Access
opus /kernel: sd1(ncr0:1:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8.
opus /kernel: 4095MB (8388315 512 byte sectors)
opus /kernel: changing root device to sd0a
[snip ...]
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