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Date:      Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:58:55 -0700
From:      Dan Raymond <draymond@foxvalley.net>
To:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Raspberry Pi stability improved
Message-ID:  <54BC56CF.6090509@foxvalley.net>
In-Reply-To: <B1DA56CBB1774BB4ACE66D69BB9A662F@ad.peach.ne.jp>
References:  <DE1783C0-C19F-448D-92EF-A51826D7FE2B@freebsd.org> <B1DA56CBB1774BB4ACE66D69BB9A662F@ad.peach.ne.jp>

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On 1/18/2015 8:51 AM, Daisuke Aoyama wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Did you use /etc/rc.d/autosize ("option AutoSize" in crochet-freebsd)?
> If so, try to disable it and never boot official FreeBSD image before 
> resizing.
> It will break the partition at first boot. It's a trap of the image.
> Personally I didn't use autosize in my images. So not affect all my 
> images.
>
> The main reason is gpart/fdisk/glabel/glowfs/newfs can't handle mixed 
> geometory.
> Default crochet-freebsd uses CHS=(x,255,63) while creating but mmcsd 
> is not!
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #diskinfo -v mmcsd0
> mmcsd0
>        512             # sectorsize
>        31674335232     # mediasize in bytes (29G)
>        61863936        # mediasize in sectors
>        4194304         # stripesize
>        0               # stripeoffset
>        20              # Cylinders according to firmware.
>        377             # Heads according to firmware.
>        8192            # Sectors according to firmware. <<< this can't 
> be handled
>        4700C511        # Disk ident.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is a reson why I use USB card reader before booting at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2015-January/009935.html

I have a 32GB SanDisk micro-SD card that always fails during the 
auto-resize operation at first boot (it emits a continuous stream of 
error messages).  I tried again with r277334 and it still fails.  Is 
there a plan to get this fixed in CURRENT?



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