Subject: Re: Error No Operating System
To: None <john@johnrshannon.com>
From: John R. Shannon <john@johnrshannon.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/03/2006 14:46:39
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John R. Shannon wrote:
> David Laight wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 06:23:15AM -0600, John R. Shannon wrote:
>>> I also can't boot hd0a:netbsd from the bootloader on an installation
>>> cd, although, if I mount /dev/wd0a /mnt, everything appears to be there.
>>
>> You should also be able to get /boot (from the install cd) to do a
>> directory listing of /.
>> (probably: device hd0a\n ls)
>>
>> What does 'dumpfs -s /dev/rwd0a' give ?
>>
>> You might need to mount the filesystem, then chroot into it in order
>> to run a dynamically linked dumpfs.
>>
>> David
>>
>
> >dev hd0a
> >ls
> ls No such file or directory
>
> # dumpfs -s /dev/rwd0a
> file system: /dev/rwd0a
> endian little-endian
> magic 11954 (UFS1)
> superblock location 8192 id [ 44310de9 2e8bc4dc ]
> cylgrp dynamic inodes 4.4BSD sblock FFSv1 fslevel 4
On rechecking, I see that I made a transcription error. sblock is FFSv2.
> nbfree 28947 ndir 59 nifree 61328 nffree 218
> ncg 6 size 262584 blocks 254503
> bsize 8192 shift 13 mask 0xffffe000
> fsize 1024 shift 10 mask 0xfffffc00
> frag 8 shift 3 fsbtodb 1
> bpg 5471 fpg 43768 ipg 10624
> minfree 5% optim time maxcontig 8 maxbpg 2048
> symlinklen 60 trackskew 0 interleave 1 contigsumsize 7
> maxfilesize 0x000400801017fff
> nindir 2048 inopb 64
> avgfilesize 16384 avgfpdir 64
> sblkno 16 cblkno 24 iblkno 32 dblkno 1360
> sbsize 2048 cgsize 8192
> csaddr 1360 cssize 1024
> cgrotor 0 fmod 0 ronly 0 clean 0x02
> flags none
> fsmnt /mnt
>
>
>
> I was able to boot NetBSD using the FreeBSD bootloader after installing
> both operating systems. I don't really want FreeBSD there, I just wanted
> to see the disk geometry.
>
> # dumpfs -s /dev/rwd0a
> file system: /dev/rwd0a
> endian little-endian
> magic 11954 (UFS1) time Mon Apr 3 07:36:14 2006
> superblock location 8192 id [ 4431087b 5e13f080 ]
> cylgrp dynamic inodes 4.4BSD sblock FFSv1 fslevel 3
> nbfree 11825 ndir 40 nifree 27174 nffree 724
> ncg 2 ncyl 113 size 115200 blocks 113367
> bsize 16384 shift 14 mask 0xffffc000
> fsize 2048 shift 11 mask 0xfffff800
> frag 8 shift 3 fsbtodb 2
> cpg 95 bpg 12160 fpg 97280 ipg 14336
> minfree 8% optim time maxcontig 7 maxbpg 4096
> rotdelay 0ms headswitch 1144064123us trackseek 1578365056us rps 60
> ntrak 1 nsect 4096 npsect 4096 spc 4096
> symlinklen 60 trackskew 0 interleave 1 contigsumsize 7
> maxfilesize 0x000400400402ffff
> nindir 4096 inopb 128 nspf 4
> avgfilesize 16384 avgfpdir 64
> sblkno 8 cblkno 16 iblkno 24 dblkno 920
> sbsize 2048 cgsize 16384 offset 1024 mask 0xffffffff
> csaddr 920 cssize 2048 shift 10 mask 0xfffffc00
> cgrotor 0 fmod 0 ronly 0 clean 0x01
> flags none
> fsmnt /mnt
> (no rotational position table)
>
> # fdisk wd0
> Disk: /dev/rwd0d
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 144073, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 145226112
>
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1023, heads: 240, sectors/track: 11 (2640 sectors/cylinder)
> total sectors: 145226112
>
> Partition table:
> 0: FreeBSD or 386BSD or old NetBSD (sysid 165)
> start 24, size 20969064 (10239 MB, Cyls 0/2/3-7942/200/9)
> 1: NetBSD (sysid 169)
> start 20969088, size 124255488 (60672 MB, Cyls
> 7942/200/9-55009/74/3), Active
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: <UNUSED>
>
>
--
John R. Shannon, CISSP
john@johnrshannon.com
jshannon@dsci-usa.com
john.r.shannon@us.army.mil
shannonjr@NetBSD.org
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