Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:07:33 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Gorkum, L. van (Luitzen)" <L.vanGorkum@cjib.minjus.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing on a Mylex DAC960 18Gb Raid1 (2 disks) Message-ID: <c36e841aa5538ac4d670ef76d642ecd5@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E8147119D2B337448C520493B2A352DA8041B0@cjibka025.cjib.minjus.nl> References: <E8147119D2B337448C520493B2A352DA8041B0@cjibka025.cjib.minjus.nl>
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On Apr 25, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Gorkum, L. van (Luitzen) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install de 5.3 version on our AlphaServer 1200 with Mylex > DAC960 controller. > Because the first disks are reserved for OpenVMS I placed two 18Gb > disks > on the last two slots and made it a Raid1 disk. This disk appears as > the > fith disk. The boot from CDROM (disk1) shows that device, sysinstall > lets me select it but then I don't see the unused (free) space and as a > result of that I can't create any partition and mountpoints. > > Does anyone recognize this and/or has a solution/hint? Boot up into sysinstall and use the fixit CD option. When you get into the shell prompt, use 'bsdlabel' to create a label on the the mlxd0 disk. Once there is a label there, sysinstall will be able to work with the disk, so once you've created a label (it doesn't have to have the correct values on it, so you can just use 'bsdlabel -W auto') reboot into sysinstall and you should be able to mess with the disk. I'm sorry that I haven't had time to track down the source of this bug. It's been broken since 5.0 (back from when GEOM came in :( ). -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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