From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Mar 27 20:59:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA29646 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29641 Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:59:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA03319; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:58:50 -0800 (PST) To: "Brett Glass" cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Mar 1996 19:49:38 PST." <9602278279.AA827981569@ccgate.infoworld.com> Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:58:50 -0800 Message-ID: <3317.827989130@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > After tweaking the translation settings on the controller, I was able to > boot but still did not have a stable system. I was experiencing coredumps > while running certain apps (e.g. mail), indicating that something was still > wrong. Is it only mail that coredumps, or more than one app? > for root, swap, /var, /usr, and /home. I then turned on debugging messages > and watched the second virtual TTY during installation. During newfs, error > messages appeared as each file system was created, saying that the number > of sectors per cylinder (4096) diagreed with that in the disk label (4032). This is just a warning, and not actually an error - everyone gets that one. We should probably just remove the message. > The Ultrastor is a translating controller, and I had entered the geometry > 969/64/63 in fdisk. The product of the last two numbers is (of course) > 4032 -- the number of sectors per cylinder after translation. Why does the > software think there are more? Does this message relate to the > problem? I don't think so. Jordan