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Hi, 

I was wondering if anyone can help me with a Qube2 and disklabel/ext2
problem.  I have configured the drive as below.  This gives me a 63Mb
/altroot wd0e ext2 partition, a 128Mb swap wd0b and a 56Gb / wd0a.

Strangely enough the kernel loads, but not without intervention.  I
have to manually specify the root disk via the serial console.  Could
you please look at my config and tell me if I have simply stuffed up
the partitions or is there something I have missed.

Thanks.

qube# disklabel -r wd0
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: ESDI
disk: QUANTUM FIREBALL
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 120478088
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
  a: 120083960   394128     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 
391 - 119521*)
  b:    263088   131040       swap                        # (Cyl. 
130 - 390)
  c: 120083960   394128     unused        0     0         # (Cyl. 
391 - 119521*)
  d: 120478088        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.   
0 - 119521*)
  e:    131039        1 Linux Ext2        0     0         # (Cyl.   
0*- 129)


And the fdisk output:

qube# fdisk wd0
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 131 (Linux native)
    start 1, size 131039 (63 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  2
        end: cylinder    8, head  39, sector 63
1: sysid 130 (Linux swap or Prime or Solaris)
    start 131040, size 263088 (128 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder    8, head  40, sector  1
        end: cylinder   24, head 135, sector 63
2: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 394128, size 120083960 (58634 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder   24, head 136, sector  1
        end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
3: <UNUSED>

The ext2 partition was created with:

#Mke2fs -r 0 -O none /dev/wd1e 
from another NetBSD box.

The fstab is:
qube# more /etc/fstab
/dev/wd0a       /               ffs     rw,softdep      0 1
/dev/wd0b       none            swap    sw              0 0
/dev/wd0e       /altroot        ext2fs  rw              0 2
kern            /kern           kernfs  rw              0 0
proc            /proc           procfs  rw              0 0

The serial console output on boot is:
Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Tue Dec 15 04:11:42 PST 1998

 1.LCD Test................................PASS
 2.Controller Test.........................PASS
 5.Bank 0:.................................16M
 6.Bank 1:.................................16M
 7.Bank 2:.................................16M
 8.Bank 3:.................................16M
 9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
Decompressing  done
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again  <--- this is what
worries me!
Decompressing  done
Decompressing  done.
Blah blah blah....
Blah ..
boot device: <unknown>
root device: wd0a <-- I have to type this in!
dump device (default wd0b):
file system (default generic):
root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
root file system type: ffs
Blah blah blah...
Blah ...
Login:

I have followed this procedure to the letter with a 40Gb disk and it
works perfectly.  The 60Gb disk has the same specifications only two
more platters.. So eveything "should" work.


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