Subject: Re: Problems booting from RAID1 raidframe on NetBSD/alpha
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/06/2005 20:42:45
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On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Simon Burge wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:51:23PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>
>> 	The only two issues I can see would be:
>>
>> 	- raid0a has a 32k/4k blocksize
>> 	- raid0a is ffsv2
>
> This is your problem.  Unlike say the i386 bootblocks, where there is
> both a ffsv1 and ffsv2 first stage bootblock, alpha only has single ffs
> (v1) bootblock.  Can you try the following out?
>
> 	cd sys/arch/alpha/stand
> 	mkdir bootxx_ffsv1 bootxx_ffsv2
> 	patch < diff
> 	make dependall
>
> I've test built these bootblocks, but haven't actually tested them.

 	It didn't work for me. I tried -DLIBSA_SINGLE_FILESYSTEM=ffsv2
 	also and that gave the same failure. The machine is in production
 	so its quite difficult for me to test, but I should be able to
 	setup another alpha to test more if it would help?

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Index: Makefile

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RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/alpha/stand/Makefile,v

retrieving revision 1.15

diff -d -p -u -r1.15 Makefile

--- Makefile	8 May 2002 04:09:46 -0000	1.15

+++ Makefile	27 Jun 2005 13:10:07 -0000

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@

 # $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.15 2002/05/08 04:09:46 lukem Exp $

 

 SUBDIR=		mkbootimage setnetbootinfo

-SUBDIR+=	boot bootxx_cd9660 bootxx_ffs bootxx_lfs netboot ustarboot

+SUBDIR+=	boot netboot ustarboot

+SUBDIR+=	bootxx_cd9660 bootxx_ffsv1 bootxx_ffsv2 bootxx_lfs

 

 .include <bsd.subdir.mk>

--- /dev/null	2005-06-27 23:10:19.000000000 +1000

+++ bootxx_ffsv1/Makefile	2005-06-27 23:06:39.000000000 +1000

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@

+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2003/02/01 23:58:48 simonb Exp $

+

+PROG = bootxx_ffs

+CPPFLAGS += -DLIBSA_SINGLE_FILESYSTEM=ffsv1 \

+	    -DBOOTXX_FS_NAME='"FFSv1"' \

+	    -DBOOTXX_RAID1_SUPPORT \

+	    -DNO_GETCHAR

+# Use small daddr_t to avoid code bloat

+CPPFLAGS+=	-D__daddr_t=int32_t

+

+# not yet desired: -DBOOTXX_FS_TYPE=FS_BSDFFS

+

+PRIMARY_MAX_LOAD!=	expr 8192 - 512

+

+.include "../Makefile.bootxx"

--- /dev/null	2005-06-27 23:10:19.000000000 +1000

+++ bootxx_ffsv2/Makefile	2005-06-27 23:06:35.000000000 +1000

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@

+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2003/02/01 23:58:48 simonb Exp $

+

+PROG = bootxx_ffs

+CPPFLAGS += -DLIBSA_SINGLE_FILESYSTEM=ffsv1 \

+	    -DBOOTXX_FS_NAME='"FFSv2"' \

+	    -DBOOTXX_RAID1_SUPPORT \

+	    -DNO_GETCHAR

+# Use small daddr_t to avoid code bloat

+CPPFLAGS+=	-D__daddr_t=int32_t

+

+# not yet desired: -DBOOTXX_FS_TYPE=FS_BSDFFS

+

+PRIMARY_MAX_LOAD!=	expr 8192 - 512

+

+.include "../Makefile.bootxx"


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