Re: installing on a VPS

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 08:45:47PM -0400, Al Zick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2016, at 5:17 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 06:39:54PM -0400, Al Zick wrote:
> >>
> >>On Sep 6, 2016, at 4:59 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 01:11:50PM -0400, Al Zick wrote:
> >>>>Okay, I tried disabling the re driver with userconf. I booted up and
> >>>>it
> >>>>seemed to work fine. However, after many reboots, while it was
> >>>>booting I
> >>>>did
> >>>>get one rtk0: watchdog timeout. I am not sure if this is anything to
> >>>>be
> >>>>concerned about or not.
> >>>
> >>>If it's only one it should be harmless.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>There is also the issue of resizing the / partition. I use disklabel
> >>>>-e
> >>>>wd0.
> >>>>Then "A", next I change the size of partitions. I already had added
> >>>>resize_root=YES to my rc.conf, but it didn't resize. After trying
> >>>>many
> >>>>different things, I was able to corrupt the root partition, so now
> >>>>it
> >>>>only
> >>>>boots if I run fsck_ffs manually.
> >>>
> >>>Do you have log option for / in the fstab ?
> >>>If so that's why resize_root didn't work.
> >>>
> >>>You can remove log from fstab, reboot and once root has been resized,
> >>>add log back.
> >>
> >>I really don't know what I have wrong. So, I included my fstab and
> >>disklabel
> >>for wd0
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>Like I said not sure what I have wrong.
> >
> >I didn't see any error here.
> >Anything about resize_root in /var/run/rc.log ?
> 
> Here is the beginning of my rc.log:
> 
> # cat rc.log
> [/etc/rc starting at Mon Sep  5 22:34:10 UTC 2016]
> [running rcorder]
> [running /etc/rc.d/wdogctl]
> [running /etc/rc.d/fsck_root]
> Starting root file system check:
> /dev/rwd0a: file system is clean; not checking
> [running /etc/rc.d/modules]
> [running /etc/rc.d/resize_root]
> [NOTE: Output from /etc/rc.d/resize_root is not logged]

try removing
# KEYWORD: interactive
from /etc/rc.d/resize_root

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
--