Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:49:59 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall error adding disks.. Message-ID: <3B1FA2A7.6636.3DE404@localhost> In-Reply-To: <bulk.98957.20010607130951@hub.freebsd.org>
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> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:07:32 -0400 > From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> > Subject: Re: Sysinstall error adding disks.. > > scanner@jurai.net wrote: > > > > I am trying to add 2 18GB Seagate Cheetah drives with sysinstall on /a and > > /b. So I can use them with Vinum. This box is a Dual proc, Dell Poweredge > > 2400. The 3 drives in it are the same cheetah drives. They are hot > > swap drives. Sysinstall had no problems labeling and installing on the > > first one. I even had these other two mounted as /stripe0 /stripe1 on the > > first install. But then i had problems with newfs -v setting up Vinum so i > > figured id low level format them and reinstall. Everything seems fine with > > the first SCSI disk but the other 2 sysinstall refuses to label. > > > > When I go to label the disks sysinstall vomits with: > > > > Error mounting /dev/da1s1e on /a : Invalid argument > > > > In a dialog box, and behind it I see: > > > > DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype - > > > > I have never had a problem using sysinstall to add disks. This box is > > supposed to go into a data center today. The box its replacing died and > > my employers of course want it installed yesterday. I have never seen this > > error. Anyone know how to resolve this? > > Do you have the necessary devices in /dev? > If not, run MAKEDEV > > - -Bill > I had the same problem recently, same error message. So today I went into /dev and did "sh MAKEDEV all". I had done a ls> outputfile earlier in order to do a comparison, the ls after doing that was *identical*, so I presume no devices were added. Yet today it seemed to recognize the disk OK, in fact it recognized it so well that when I used disklabel (from sysinstall) to mistakenly set the mountpoints on the new disk slices to where they were on the primary disk (instead of /mnt) I lost all access to this remote system, so I get to pay it a visit with a floppy now.. sigh. Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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