Subject: Re: anoyance w/ ahd on Sun W2100z
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: Kurt Schreiner <ks@ub.uni-mainz.de>
List: port-amd64
Date: 02/05/2005 16:57:19
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 11:18:43PM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:29:30PM +0100, Kurt Schreiner wrote:
> > findroot: unable to read block 4294967296
> > sd1(ahd1:0:0:0): adapter resource shortage
> > sd1(ahd1:0:0:0): adapter resource shortage
> > sd1(ahd1:0:0:0): adapter resource shortage
> > sd1(ahd1:0:0:0): adapter resource shortage
> > sd1(ahd1:0:0:0): adapter resource shortage
> > findroot: unable to read block 4294967296
> > 
> > There was a thread on similar problems w/ ahc on i386/alpha/sgi some time
> > (2001?) ago.
> > This doesn't seem to be a real problem (AFAICS) as the machine runs fine
> > w/o any complaints (just build a new "world" and kernel), it's only spewing
> > this messages during boot...
> 
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> sys/arch/x86/include/bootinfo.h rev 1.7 should fix this problem (although
> there is an underlying 32bit overflow issue that was unmasked by this
> too somewhere, but that won't bother your system).

Hi Frank,

ok, thanks. I'll try this monday morning when I'm near the machine again.
(Shouldn't have powerd off the beast when going home yesterday evening...)

Kurt