From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 12 9:59:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A9DA37B405; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 09:59:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 12 Oct 2001 17:59:23 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:59:23 +0100 From: David Malone To: "Hartmann, O." Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, roberto@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless boot broken in FBSD 4.4-STABLE Message-ID: <20011012175923.A84940@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <20011012173603.A52936-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011012173603.A52936-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>; from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 05:40:06PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 05:40:06PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: > As an effect of the today's cvsupdate, make world and installing all > necessary stuff, including a mergemaster for our DHCP server, none > of our diskless stations is booting! > > After receiving their kernel, booting into it, the diskless station > fails on mounting /etc with the following error message: > > cylinder groups must have at least 2 cylinders > MFS mount on /etc failed: droping into /bin/sh > > It is important to get the terminals back as soon as possible ... I'd guess that this is a problem with Robert's patches to newfs when applied to small file systems. I'd guess you could work around it by editing rc.diskless and looking for the mount_mfs line and adding something like "-t 512" to the command line. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message