Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:29 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 20040502 snapshot + Dell PE3250 Message-ID: <20040506163429.GA18447@ns1.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200405061012.25031.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <DF2929AADC696949827B93534462FBA13BC5A9@blrx2kmbgl202.blr.amer.dell.com> <20040505144849.GA21582@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200405061012.25031.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:12:24AM -0400, 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. Thanks. > > 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. I was a bit sloppy. You can mount the EFI partition anywhere, as long as it's not /boot/*. The installer doesn't have /efi hardcoded, I do :-) Other than that, yes. I'm thinking of enforcing a specific mount point. I also need to add an EFI partition to the default partitioning scheme on ia64. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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