Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 11:55:32 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall install.c Message-ID: <XFMail.020107115532.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020107195440.A11126@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On 07-Jan-02 Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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" <can't remember last name> noted that either boot1 or >> perhaps > > Weisgerber > >> the loader blew up when he reinstalled current with 16384/2048. >> Reformatting >> the disk as 8192/1024 fixed his problem. > > Apparantly current != releng_4 for this one as I did not see it when trying > my RC0 miniinst. The default for sysinstalls was/is 16386/2048 (before this > commit I mean) right? I just accepted sysinstalls defaults I mean. Hmm, perhaps sysinstall is overriding newfs in stable still? We should see if anyone can reproduce this on -current as well. The boot1 code does seem to assume 8192 block size from my reading of it, though I'm not 100% sure. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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