From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 31 17:08:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12599 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA12544 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:08:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00752; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:03:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901010103.RAA00752@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Turpin cc: Alpha Mailing list Subject: Re: 3.0-19981208-SNAP - Boot problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 20:28:37 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:03:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > As I posted earlier I get the following error on my multia. > > insufficent dynamic memory for a request of 3275342649 bytes > > So, I've done some checking and it seems to me that in > /usr/src/sys/boot/alpha/boot1/sys.c fs->fs_bsize is REALLY big. Large > enough to give the above error (3GB). > > If I compile boot.c with #define DEBUG it will lockup in devread > on puthex(size). devread is called from find() in sys.c like this: > > devread(iobuf, fsbtodb(fs, ino_to_fsba(fs, ino)) + boff, fs->fs_bsize_); > > Am I doing something stupid to cause this? I can only see this happening if the read is corrupted (you get lots of floppy noise on the Multia), or the disk/filesystem is busted. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message