Re: NetBSD Installation on Sun Ultra 25

On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:20 PM John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.08.03.00
> >> Target 0
> >> Unit 0 Disk ATA ST3360320AS M 703282608 Blocks, 360 GB SATA device PhyNum 0
>
> > Alright, it seems to be a disk size problem. Didn't expect this.
> > If i create a root partition of 80GB on this drive, it boots and works.
> >
> > The machine was apparently sold with a 250GB drives as a maximum size.
> > So my question is: can i only use the disk up to 250GB or can i create
> > a boot partition of 80GB, swap of 8GB and use the space beyond in a
> > third partition?
> >
> > OBP version is 4.25.9.
>
> 128 gig wraparound issue, perhaps? On machines that only support booting
> from older FFS filesystems, I usually just have a small initial partition
> for loading the kernel, then root on the larger partition covering the
> rest of the disk.
>
> John

Your suggestion seems to work. Thank you.