On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 12:24:52PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> > I've had similar problems with NetBSD-current/sparc64.  I have a
> > number of kernels with identical md5's, and some boot and some do
> > not.  In private email Manuel Bouyer suggested it was related to the
> > disk blocks occupied by the kernels,
> 
> That would be my suspicion too.
> 
> > and an integer overflow somewhere in the boot code.
> 
> That seems less likely to me.
> 
> >>> How large is your / partition ?
> >> %df -kl   
> >> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> >> /dev/wd0a     7728318  3464694   3877208    47%    /
> >>> Less than 8G, shouldn't cause any problems.
> 
> I'd expect possible problems at four points:
> 
> (1) 1G, if the ROM code uses 6-byte CDBs.  (I'd've hoped such code
> would have been stamped out before the sparc64s were made, but the
> ability of corporations to do stupid things amazes me.)

We're talking about IDE devices here.
Also, I can boot my U5 from a partition starting past 2G.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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