From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 07:39:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6548016A4CE for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 07:39:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B0E43D2F for ; Thu, 6 May 2004 07:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 10117 invoked from network); 6 May 2004 14:39:20 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 6 May 2004 14:39:20 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.205 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i46EdIZp004673; Thu, 6 May 2004 10:39:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 10:39:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <20040505144849.GA21582@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200405061012.25031.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200405061012.25031.jhb@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405061039.39687.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: marcel@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 20040502 snapshot + Dell PE3250 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 14:39:22 -0000 On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:12 am, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:48 am, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:00:17PM +0530, Muthu_T@Dell.com wrote: > > > The /dev/da0p2 line shows negative numbers in 'Avail' column. Its > > > capacity is 104%. > > > Is this a bug? Or Am I missing something? > > > > The root file system is too small. Make it larger. You also need to > > specify a mount point for the EFI partition so that the kernel gets > > installed there. You cannot boot otherwise. > > No. sysinstall only mounts /, it doesn't mount the other partitions. The > buggy code is in install.c in sysinstall where it does the newfs and mount > bit since it doesn't check for top-level partitions being filesystems and > swap, etc. Also, there is _another_ bug that you can't create a filesystem > for the remaining space. sysinstall complains that the partition is too > big. *sigh* I'm going to try to work on at least the first bug today. Actually, the second bug is a generic sysinstall/libdisk thing in that uncreated partitions aren't moved around to coalesce free space. Anyways, there is a real second bug in that only EFI makes it into the generated /etc/fstab. I have fixes for the two sysinstall bugs that I hope to test this afternoon. > > The installer links /boot to /efi/boot, so you cannot mount the EFI > > partition as /boot/efi. Set the mount point to /efi. > > It would be good to document this or better yet fix sysinstall to choose > '/efi' as the default mount point for EFI. Just a handy 'installation notes' from the ia64 platform page that says to choose a mount point for EFI != '/boot' would be good I think. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org