Re: SS4 - short disk read

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

David Brownlee wrote:
>> What other options do I have, beyond netboot which I hate and CD-ROM?
>> Do we have a boot kernel similar to OpenBSD ("bsd.rd" they call it)
>> which I can drop into root and start with sysinst?
>> Or maybe i need an external HDD...
> How far into the disk is the swap partition - unless its far far into
> the disk it shouldn't matter.

What is "far" ? I remember the SS10 having strange problems with 1GB...
the SS4 is newer. It has only one hard disk (stripped down SS5,
remember! only one tray)

The whole hard disk is 4G

[     4.014217] sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <WDIGTL, ENTERPRISE,
1.91> disk fixed
[     4.134204] sd0: 4157 MB, 5720 cyl, 8 head, 186 sec, 512 bytes/sect
x 8515173 sectors
[     4.157337] sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s)
transfers, tagged queueing
[     4.994256] WARNING: 1 error while detecting hardware; check system log.

3 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:   7465253         0     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      0
-   5016*)
 b:   1049040   7465296       swap                     # (Cyl.   5017
-   5721)
 c:   8515173         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0
-   5722*)

I also tried an external hard disk, 2GB... and besides having issues
disklabeling it, I always got a short read.


> What is the ss4 running at the moment? You should be able to add a
> netbsd kernel to whatever existing root partition with a different
> name and boot it, as long as the userland is not from a later major
> version everything should pretty much work

Right now I am running 9.0 - yesI can probably boot 9.1 or 9.2, but how
to "upgrade" ?



Riccardo