From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 30 17:30:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FC837B405 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 16KrHj-0005b4-00; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 02:30:39 +0100 Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBV0oL105143 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 01:50:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: -CURRENT boot1 broken? Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin wrote: > > This suggests that boot1 is broken. > > Ugh, it shouldn't be. :( Well, I guess it isn't. When I moved my system to a new disk, I created all filesystems with 16384/2048. Pretty useless for the root filesystem, I admit, except for consistency's sake. Turns out that boot1 doesn't handle this. Jumping through some hoops I have moved / back to 8192/1024 and it works fine now. *Sigh* As a side effect of experimenting with various boot combinations, I'm confused about where the different components are loaded from. Experimental evidence suggests this: 1. At the SRM prompt, booting from a particular drive will load the bootstrap (boot1) from there. 2. boot1 proceeds to load /boot/loader from the same drive. You can specify a different file name, but there appears to be no way to qualify this with a drive. 3. loader pulls in the kernel from da0, even if booted from a different drive. 4. The kernel mounts da0a as root device. I'm surprised by the step from any drive (1, 2) to the fixed(?) assumption of da0 (3, 4). -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message