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install/55201: 9.0 hp300 sysinst cannot find root partition on upgrade in some case



>Number:         55201
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       9.0 hp300 sysinst cannot find root partition on upgrade in some case
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 23 17:35:00 +0000 2020
>Originator:     Izumi Tsutsui
>Release:        NetBSD 9.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD 9.0 (RAMDISK) #0: Fri Feb 14 00:06:28 UTC 2020   mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/hp300/compile/RAMDISK
Architecture: m68k
Machine: hp300
>Description:
When I tried to upgrade my HP9000/382 to NetBSD/hp300 9.0,
sysinst complained "No root partition defined.  Cannot continue"
just after selecting the target disk.

Note the similar upgrade installation on my other hp300
(362, 425t, and 425e) from 8.0 there were no such error,
so there is some specific conditions.

---

 NetBSD/hp300 9.0

 This menu-driven tool is designed to help you install NetBSD to a hard disk,
 or upgrade an existing NetBSD system, with a minimum of work.
 In the following menus type the reference letter (a, b, c, ...) to select an
 item, or type CTRL+N/CTRL+P to select the next/previous item.
 The arrow keys and Page-up/Page-down may also work.
 Activate the current selection from the menu by typing the enter key.
 If your machine has 4MB or less, sysinst will not operate correctly.
 
 Thank you for using NetBSD!
               
                NetBSD-9.0 Install System                     
                                                              
                a: Install NetBSD to hard disk                
               >b: Upgrade NetBSD on a hard disk              
                c: Re-install sets or install additional sets 
                d: Reboot the computer                        
                e: Utility menu                               
                f: Config menu                                
                x: Exit Install System                        
               

---

 Ok, let's upgrade NetBSD on your hard disk.  As always, this will change
 information on your hard disk.  You should have made a full backup before
 this procedure!  Do you really want to upgrade NetBSD?  (This is your last  
 warning before this procedure starts modifying your disks.)  
 
 
 
 
 
                               
                                Yes or no?    
                                              
                                a: No         
                               >b: Yes        
                               

---
                                                                               
 On which disk do you want to upgrade NetBSD?


                             
                              Available disks                                 
                                                                              
                              a: current system                               
                             >b: sd0 (2.2G)                                   
                              x: Exit                                         
                             

---
                                                                                
 No root partition defined.  Cannot continue 
 


                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                           
                           >Hit enter to continue 
                           

---

The target sd0 has the following disklabel:
---
# disklabel sd0
# /dev/rsd0:
type: unknown
disk: M2952S-512     
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 164
tracks/cylinder: 5
sectors/cylinder: 820
cylinders: 5714
total sectors: 4685480
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]
 a:   4422260       820     4.2BSD   2048 16384     0  # (Cyl.      1 -   5393)
 b:    262400   4423080       swap                     # (Cyl.   5394 -   5713)
 c:   4685480         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -   5713)
 d:       820         0       boot                     # (Cyl.      0 -      0)
# 
---

Note partition d is used to store MD bootloader.

/etc/fstab in the sd0a is:
---
# cat /mnt/etc/fstab
/dev/sd0a		/		ffs	rw,log 1 1
/dev/sd0b		none		swap	sw 0 0
swap			/tmp		mfs	rw,-s=16m 0 0
kernfs			/kern		kernfs	rw 0 0
procfs			/proc		procfs	rw 0 0
ptyfs			/dev/pts	ptyfs	rw 0 0

tmpfs	/var/shm	tmpfs	rw,-m1777,-sram%25
# 

---

dmesg is here:
---
[   1.0000000] bootinfo found at 0xfe802000
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
[   1.0000000]     2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
[   1.0000000]     2018, 2019, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
[   1.0000000]     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

[   1.0000000] NetBSD 9.0 (RAMDISK) #0: Fri Feb 14 00:06:28 UTC 2020
[   1.0000000]  mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/hp300/compile/RAMDISK
[   1.0000000] HP 9000/382 (25MHz MC68040 CPU+MMU+FPU, 4k on-chip physical I/D caches)
[   1.0000000] total memory = 24564 KB
[   1.0000000] avail memory = 19456 KB
[   1.0000000] timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
[   1.0000000] mainbus0 (root)
[   1.0000000] intio0 at mainbus0
[   1.0000000] rtc0 at intio0 addr 0x420000
[   1.0000000] frodo0 at intio0 addr 0x41c000 ipl 5
[   1.0000000] dnkbd at frodo0 offset 0x0 not configured
[   1.0000000] com0 at frodo0 offset 0x40: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
[   1.0000000] com1 at frodo0 offset 0x60: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
[   1.0000000] hil0 at intio0 addr 0x428000 ipl 1
[   1.0000000] hpib at intio0 not configured
[   1.0000000] dma0 at intio0 addr 0x500000 ipl 1: 98620C, 2 channels, 32-bit DMA
[   1.0000000] dio0 at mainbus0
[   1.0000000] com2 at dio0 scode 9 ipl 5: ns16550a, working fifo
[   1.0000000] com2: console
[   1.0000000] device id = 0x6 secid = 0x0 at dio0 scode 12 ipl 3 not configured
[   1.0000000] dcm0 at dio0 scode 13 ipl 3
[   1.0000000] spc0 at dio0 scode 14 ipl 4: 98265A SCSI, 32-bit DMA, SCSI ID 7
[   1.0000000] scsibus0 at spc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
[   1.0000000] le0 at dio0 scode 21 ipl 5: address 08:00:09:18:d8:d2
[   1.0000000] le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
[   1.0000000] gendiofb0 at dio0 scode 132 ipl 3: 1024x768x8 frame buffer
[   1.0000000] wsdisplay0 at gendiofb0 kbdmux 1
[   1.0000000] wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
[   1.0000000] wsdisplay0: screen 0 added (std, vt100 emulation)
[   1.0000000] timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
[   1.0000110] timecounter: Timecounter "mc6840" frequency 250000 Hz quality 100
[   1.0091310] scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
[   2.0486350] hil0: no devices
[   3.0882430] sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <FUJITSU, M2952S-512, 0147> disk fixed
[   3.1182270] sd0: 2291 MB, 5714 cyl, 5 head, 164 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4693462 sectors
[   3.1482030] sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
[   3.1682190] sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <TEAC, FC-1     HF   07, RV A> disk removable
[   3.2181790] sd1(spc0:0:1:0): not ready, data = 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00
[   3.2790110] sd1: drive offline
[   3.3081470] sd1: async, 8-bit transfers
[   3.5380390] boot device: le0
[   3.5500510] md0: internal 1800 KB image area
[   3.5500510] root on md0a dumps on md0b
[   3.5780390] root file system type: ffs
[   3.5955270] kern.module.path=/stand/hp300/9.0/modules
[   3.6280030] WARNING: clock gained 71 days

---

Note sd1 is a SCSI floppy drive and it's empty.

On hp425t (i.e. no error during upgrade), the disklabel is:
---
 disklabel sd0
# /dev/rsd0:
type: unknown
disk: sd
label: fictious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 705
tracks/cylinder: 2
sectors/cylinder: 1410
cylinders: 50824
total sectors: 71687372
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0 

4 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:  70610429      1410     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      1 -  50079*)
 b:   1048576  70611840       swap                     # (Cyl.  50079*-  50822*)
 c:  71687372         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -  50842*)
 d:      1410         0       boot                     # (Cyl.      0 -      0)
# 

---


>How-To-Repeat:
See above.

>Fix:
No idea.
(it's a bit hard for me to parse find_disks() in sysinst/disks.c)

---
Izumi Tsutsui



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