Re: install/55662: sysinst core dump when installing on Dell R610

[Vincent DEFERT <20.100%defert.com@localhost>]

    Hi Martin,
      
      I'm not surprised it works inside a VM, I guess it has to do with
      the firmware of the machine.
      If it were possible to create an USB installation image with added
      traces in the kernel/drivers/sysinst, I could repeat the
      installation and provide you with more useful information.
      Or let me know if I can do anything else to help.
      
      Vincent

On 22/09/2020 20:10, Martin Husemann wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR install/55662; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: install/55662: sysinst core dump when installing on Dell R610
> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 20:08:34 +0200
>
>  I fail to reproduce this.
>  
>  Starting with:
>  
>  # gpt show vnd0
>         start        size  index  contents
>             0           1         PMBR
>             1           1         Pri GPT header
>             2          32         Pri GPT table
>            34  1136641981         Unused
>    1136642015          32         Sec GPT table
>    1136642047           1         Sec GPT header
>  
>  and then:
>  
>   You can now change the sizes for the system partitions.  The default is to
>   allocate all the space to the root file system.  However, you may wish to
>   have separate /usr (additional system files), /var (log files etc) or /home
>   (users' home directories) file systems.
>  
>   Free space will be added to the partition marked with a '+'.
>  
>         Size (MB)                             Filesystem
>         ----------------------------------- - --------------------
>      a: 128                                   (Other: MSDOS)
>      b: 65674 (79852)                       + /
>      c: 2048                                  <swap>
>      d: 25%                                   /tmp (tmpfs)
>      e: 0                                     /usr
>      f: 0                                     /var
>     >g: 472972                                /data0
>         ----------------------------------- - --------------------
>      i: Add a user defined partition
>      j: Clone external partition(s)
>      k: Change input units (sectors/cylinders/MB/GB)
>      x: Go on.  Free space 14178 MB.
>  
>  
>  Going on I get:
>  
>   We now have your GPT partitions for vnd0 below.  This is your last chance to
>   change them. 
>   
>   Flags: (I)nstall, (N)ewfs, (B)ootable.  Total size: 542G, free: 3089K
>  
>        Start (MB)     End (MB)    Size (MB)  FS type Flag Filesystem
>      ------------ ------------ ------------ -------- ---- ----------------
>   a:            1          128          128    MSDOS N
>   b:          130        79981        79852    FFSv2 N    /
>   c:        79983        82030         2048     swap
>   d:        82032       554999       472968    FFSv2 N    /data0
>      ------------ ------------ ------------ -------- ---- ----------------
>   f: Change input units (sectors/cylinders/MB/GB)
>   g: Clone external partition(s)
>   h: Cancel
>  >x: Partition sizes ok
>  
>  
>  Selecting ok it creates all partitions and runs multiple newfs and then
>  I have:
>  
>  Filesystem      1K-blocks         Used        Avail %Cap Mounted on
>  [..]
>  /dev/dk7         79274118           24     75310390   0% /targetroot
>  /dev/dk8        476827456            4    452986080   0% /targetroot/data0
>  /dev/dk9           130924          464       130460   0% /targetroot/mnt
>  
>  
>  This is with -current/HEAD, but I tried netbsd-9 and get the same results
>  in my test setup. What am I doing differently?
>  
>  Martin
>  
>