From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 22 18: 7:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lynx.syix.com (lynx.syix.com [205.171.72.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3106B37B404 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from cat (cat.npqr.net [63.147.19.40]) by lynx.syix.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2N27q090481 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:07:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pan@syix.com) Message-ID: <02fc01c1d20f$8a18ad60$2813933f@cat> From: "pan" To: Subject: 4.5r -> 4.5s panic: breaks raid array Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:07:47 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Abit KR7A-RAID Athlon XP 1900+ 1024 mgB HPT372 Raid 0 with 2 x Maxtor 6L040J2 UDMA 133 hdd {ar0: ad4/ad5} Installed fBSD 4.5-release from CD - no problem cvsup to 4.5-stable (March 22 2002) went well through mergemaster but failed on subsequent reboot couldn't capture boot messages as I got kernel panics based on what 4.5 stable thought was a broken raid array could only get boot prompt , boot -s seemed to work, but couldn't mount any filesystems had to unload current kernel module, load kernel.old, set variables and then booted into 4.5 release; immediately changed flags on /kernel mv'd /kernel.old to /kernel and rebooted to a working 4.5 release box I may have some of the above details incorrect as I was anxious to get my machine working again so I didn't take notes from memory the boot failure for 4.5 stable was - 1. references to failure to write fsbn 2 on ar0 2. failures on ad4 with message about removing ad4 from array 3. message about broken array 4. failures on ad5 - removing from array 5. message about broken array 6. then attempts to synch drives and fatal failure "giving up on buffer 1" was able to load kernel.old and now system boots as a 4.5 release machine with a working raid array It was nice seeing UDMA 133 flashing by when 4.5 stable was trying to boot - now back to 4.5 release with only UDMA 100 Will try to supply further data (if possible) should anyone ask To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message