Subject: Re: Really weird filesystem behavior on prep
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-prep
Date: 11/25/2005 08:31:35
On 11/25/05, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:03:17AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > On 11/25/05, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> > > Is the scsi controller a siop or esiop ? If so, this may be fixed
> > > by upgrading to 3.0_RC3
> >
> > It's a siop. I'm trying RC3 now. I netbooted the sysinst.fs kernel OK.
> >
> > But I think sysinst is confused. It tells me
> >
> > c starts at sector 0, NetBSD part starts at sector xxxx. Write outside
> > the NetBSD sector?
> >
> > Prep wants to make "c" the whole disk, but I think sysinst expects it
> > to just be the NetBSD partition. I think.
>
> Does prep have a MBR partition table ? If so it could be something
> sysinst herited from i386. Someone familiar with the prep port will proba=
bly
> have more ideas on this.
>
> At last it can now read/write the disk, isn't it ?

Well, sysinst just made a messed up disklabel on the disk... a (the
root) is overlapping with b (swap). I guess I'll just disklabel and
unpack the sets manually.

Andy