[CUWiN-Dev] Re: Fail to boot after upgrade
Lu-chuan Kung
kung at uiuc.edu
Thu Nov 2 16:39:18 CST 2006
Lu-chuan Kung <kung <at> uiuc.edu> writes:
> 5 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> a: 62512 32 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*-
> 488*)
> c: 62512 32 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*-
> 488*)
> d: 125056 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
976)
> e: 62512 62544 4.2BSD 1024 8192 7816 # (Cyl. 488*-
976)
> [snap]
> I noticed that in the output of disklabel. The number of total sectors of
BIOS
> disk geometry is negative. However, the individual parameters
(Cyl,Head,S/Cyl)
> seem to be correct and thus I couldn't fix it in disklabel.
>
> And by the way, why do we need disk geometry when using "/sbin/upgrade"? I
> didn't notice anything related to disk geometry in the source of the script.
>
> Luke
>
Hi Dave,
I actually solved the problem by myself and want to share this information
here. The problem is actually caused by wrong block-size and fragment-size
setting on /dev/wd0e. I changed the line that executes newfs in /sbin/upgrade
to:
newfs -b 4096 -f 512
and then everything works.
Luke
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