From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Dec 29 17:32:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11285 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:32:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from saturn.spel.com (saturn.spel.com [208.226.39.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11280 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 17:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mturpin@saturn.spel.com) Received: from localhost (mturpin@localhost) by saturn.spel.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA03158 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:28:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mturpin@saturn.spel.com) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:28:37 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Turpin To: Alpha Mailing list Subject: 3.0-19981208-SNAP - Boot problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As I posted earlier I get the following error on my multia. insufficent dynamic memory for a request of 3275342649 bytes So, I've done some checking and it seems to me that in /usr/src/sys/boot/alpha/boot1/sys.c fs->fs_bsize is REALLY big. Large enough to give the above error (3GB). If I compile boot.c with #define DEBUG it will lockup in devread on puthex(size). devread is called from find() in sys.c like this: devread(iobuf, fsbtodb(fs, ino_to_fsba(fs, ino)) + boff, fs->fs_bsize_); Am I doing something stupid to cause this? Thanks Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Turpin | Consulting - Training - Network Installation Systems Engineer | Main Street Technology Centre | http://www.MainStreetTech.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message