From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 15:23:18 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658B616A41A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:23:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaikat@email.unc.edu) Received: from smtp.unc.edu (smtpsrv1.isis.unc.edu [152.2.1.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2395E13C4B5 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaikat@email.unc.edu) Received: from [152.23.75.195] (dhcp29913.wireless.unc.edu [152.23.75.195]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.unc.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id lA8FMmH5027564 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:22:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <473329C6.1050505@email.unc.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:22:46 -0500 From: Jay Aikat Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows/20070809) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 6.1 install and multiple drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:23:18 -0000 I am trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on a Dell Poweredge 2900 which has an Intel dual-core processor, and 8 drives on a SATA backplane, connected to a PERC 5i controller. They are setup as just a bunch of disks, and not raided. Here's the issue: -- 6.2 installs fine (but I need 6.1 for some hardware we installed on this machine that only works with 6.1, not 6.2) -- 6.1 install fails with a vm-fault error after starting to write to disk0 (if all 8 drives have been fdisked and labeled). -- 6.1 installs fine if I fdisk and label only the drive0 (mfid0) But after installing 6.1 using only one drive, if I then run sysinstall to add more drives, fdisk works fine, but when I run label, and then "write" it crashes, and then I can't even boot into the disk0 b/c its partitions have become corrupted. What seems to be happening is that "label" somehow seems to be duplicating the /var partition in disk0 into the disk1 partition. Then if I add disk2, label seems to be duplicating the disk1 partition onto disk2. (this duplication problem I discover when I try to label outside of sysinstall). Has anyone seen this bizarre behavior - seems like a bug in bsdlabel in 6.1 - not sure. Any help or suggestions are highly appreciated. Thanks, --jay.