Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:22:46 -0500 From: Jay Aikat <jaikat@email.unc.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 6.1 install and multiple drives Message-ID: <473329C6.1050505@email.unc.edu>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?473329C6.1050505>