Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:13:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Tom <tom@sdf.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Subject: Re: DPT install problem Message-ID: <XFMail.980526131310.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980522173743.21115E-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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On 23-May-98 Tom wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > >> On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 10:41:41AM -0700, Tom wrote: >> > Yes, it seems to be a sysinstall interaction. If I leave the space >> > unallocated, and then disklabel and newfs it later, it works fine. >> > >> > Currently it is pretty hard to bootstrap a new DPT system. You have >> > to >> > be able to build a kernel somewhere else as sysinstall will install a >> > non-DPT kernel, and you can't use sysinstall to allocate large DPT >> > partitions. I fear for the new user. >> >> sysinstall doesn't do this anymore. The DPT driver is activated as >> part of the standard sysinstall now. > > I've noticed that. But this won't help anyone until 2.2.7 is released, > or somone makes a 2.2.6 snapshot with the new GENERIC kernel. I should have a kernel image in ftp://ftp.simon-shapiro.org/FreeBSD. >> As for large arrays: I think that will have to be left to you that >> actually have those large arrays - it is kind of difficult for us >> others to find out where the problem is. I suspect libdisk might be >> the culprit; it interact with the slice code using different IOCTLs >> than disklabel, IIRC. > > So you think that sysinstall makes a bogus label? Remember, sysinstall > hangs basically right after newfs'ing the large filesystem. Either newfs > hangs while cleaning up, or something that sysinstall does after > newfs'ing > all the filesystems hangs. > > Another interesting tibbit, is that sysinstall seems to be generating > once a second disk i/o requests during this hung state. Could be stuck > in > loop. > >> Eivind. > > Tom > --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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