Re: port-amd64/53113: NetBSD_8.0_BETA/amd64 fails to boot.

[Utkarsh Anand <utkarsh009%yandex.com@localhost>]

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Subject: Re: port-amd64/53113: NetBSD_8.0_BETA/amd64 fails to boot.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:46:43 +0530

 21.03.2018, 15:10, "Utkarsh Anand" <utkarsh009%yandex.com@localhost>:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/53113; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Utkarsh Anand <utkarsh009%yandex.com@localhost>
 > To: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 > Cc: "gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost" <gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > Subject: Re: port-amd64/53113: NetBSD_8.0_BETA/amd64 fails to boot.
 > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:06:57 +0530
 >
 > Â 21.03.2018, 14:43, "Utkarsh Anand" <utkarsh009%yandex.com@localhost>:
 > Â > 21.03.2018, 14:34, "Martin Husemann" <martin%duskware.de@localhost>:
 > Â >> Â On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 02:03:06PM +0530, Utkarsh Anand wrote:
 > Â >>
 > Â >>> Â Â BTW, looking at this:
 > Â >>> Â Â https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/amd64/liveimage/usbimage/Makefile#5
 > Â >>> Â Â and confirming from the size of the image, it seems that
 > Â >>> Â Â ${IMAGESECTORS} must be 3145728 (1536*1024*1024/512 taken from
 > Â >>> Â Â https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/common/bootimage/Makefile.bootimage#163
 > Â >>> Â Â ), and that should be the partition d: in
 > Â >>> Â Â https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/common/bootimage/diskproto.noswap.mbr.in#24
 > Â >>> Â Â ). According to freebsd, it is 2867200, which should be wrong. So, any
 > Â >>> Â Â ideas on how this happened? Can anybody build an install-image, write
 > Â >>> Â Â it to a flash drive and double check the disklabel? I did not change
 > Â >>> Â Â any values, everything was set to default.
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â I am not sure what image exactly you did use.
 > Â >
 > Â > I build 8.0_BETA myself using build.sh with `release install-image` options.
 > Â >> Â I downloaded NetBSD-8.99.14.amd64-install.img.gz from the latest
 > Â >> Â nycdn/daily/HEAD build and extracted it onto a USB stick.
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â The disklabel looks like this:
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â # /dev/rsd0d:
 > Â >> Â type: ESDI
 > Â >> Â disk: image
 > Â >> Â label:
 > Â >> Â flags:
 > Â >> Â bytes/sector: 512
 > Â >> Â sectors/track: 32
 > Â >> Â tracks/cylinder: 64
 > Â >> Â sectors/cylinder: 2048
 > Â >> Â cylinders: 1450
 > Â >> Â total sectors: 2969600
 > Â >> Â rpm: 3600
 > Â >> Â interleave: 1
 > Â >> Â trackskew: 0
 > Â >> Â cylinderskew: 0
 > Â >> Â headswitch: 0 # microseconds
 > Â >> Â track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
 > Â >> Â drivedata: 0
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â 8 partitions:
 > Â >> Â # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 > Â >> Â Â a: 2967552 2048 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1 - 1449)
 > Â >> Â Â c: 2967552 2048 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 - 1449)
 > Â >> Â Â d: 2969600 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1449)
 > Â Hmm.. According to this: https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/distrib/amd64/installimage/Makefile#8 , your image has the correct number of sectors as it should be, which means, there was some problem in generating my image file. Can you cross check by building 8.0_BETA? Meanwhile, I'll just check the image for any errors.
 > Â >
 > Â > Which file (and what variables) decide the size of partition d? (and thus a and c, as they are calculated from it.)
 > Â >> Â The ffs file system in partition a: fsck's cleanly and is mountable/usable.
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â Of course (my umass stick is slightly bigger than the image) I a few logs like:
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â sd0: 5304320 trailing sectors not covered by disklabel
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â but that is harmless.
 > Â >>
 > Â >> Â Martin
 
 Hey! https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/c20c0c7bce5a6b954d5fea0a3932bfa569523a57 shows that netbsd-8 still uses 1400 MB as size while netbsd-current uses 1450 MB which was bumped 6 months ago https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/48053fec549ddfcb2412db8778f0cbf7e6bc9f63 . So my number of sectors is correct too. Could 'not bumping' the size for netbsd-8 be a problem? should it also be bumped