From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 09:34:31 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 5EFA616A4CE; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14A443D53; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i46GYTp9018515; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@ns1.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i46GYTGa018514; Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 09:34:29 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20040506163429.GA18447@ns1.xcllnt.net> References: <20040505144849.GA21582@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <200405061012.25031.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405061012.25031.jhb@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: Muthu_T@Dell.com cc: freebsd-ia64@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 16:34:31 -0000 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