Re: port-amd64/53113: NetBSD_8.0_BETA/amd64 fails to boot.

[Utkarsh Anand <utkarsh009%yandex.com@localhost>]

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From: Utkarsh Anand <utkarsh009%yandex.com@localhost>
To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Cc: "gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost" <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: port-amd64/53113: NetBSD_8.0_BETA/amd64 fails to boot.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:43:19 +0530

 21.03.2018, 14:34, "Martin Husemann" <martin%duskware.de@localhost>:
 > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 02:03:06PM +0530, Utkarsh Anand wrote:
 >
 >> Â BTW, looking at this:
 >> Â https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/amd64/liveimage/usbimage/Makefile#5
 >> Â and confirming from the size of the image, it seems that
 >> Â ${IMAGESECTORS} must be 3145728 (1536*1024*1024/512 taken from
 >> Â https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/common/bootimage/Makefile.bootimage#163
 >> Â ), and that should be the partition d: in
 >> Â https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/common/bootimage/diskproto.noswap.mbr.in#24
 >> Â ). According to freebsd, it is 2867200, which should be wrong. So, any
 >> Â ideas on how this happened? Can anybody build an install-image, write
 >> Â it to a flash drive and double check the disklabel? I did not change
 >> Â any values, everything was set to default.
 >
 > I am not sure what image exactly you did use.
 I build 8.0_BETA myself using build.sh with `release install-image` options.
 > I downloaded NetBSD-8.99.14.amd64-install.img.gz from the latest
 > nycdn/daily/HEAD build and extracted it onto a USB stick.
 >
 > The disklabel looks like this:
 >
 > # /dev/rsd0d:
 > type: ESDI
 > disk: image
 > label:
 > flags:
 > bytes/sector: 512
 > sectors/track: 32
 > tracks/cylinder: 64
 > sectors/cylinder: 2048
 > cylinders: 1450
 > total sectors: 2969600
 > rpm: 3600
 > interleave: 1
 > trackskew: 0
 > cylinderskew: 0
 > headswitch: 0 # microseconds
 > track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
 > drivedata: 0
 >
 > 8 partitions:
 > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 > Â a: 2967552 2048 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1 - 1449)
 > Â c: 2967552 2048 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 - 1449)
 > Â d: 2969600 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1449)
 Which file (and what variables) decide the size of partition d? (and thus a and c, as they are calculated from it.)
 >
 > The ffs file system in partition a: fsck's cleanly and is mountable/usable.
 >
 > Of course (my umass stick is slightly bigger than the image) I a few logs like:
 >
 > sd0: 5304320 trailing sectors not covered by disklabel
 >
 > but that is harmless.
 >
 > Martin