Helmut 'Ingrid' Schneider wrote: > running 8.2-RELEASE-p1 within VMWare ESXi 4.1-u1 I want to use raw > devices as hard disks. I create the devices using this link: > > http://www.mattiasholm.com/node/33 > > I tried 3 different hard drives (Seagate 2x80GB and 1x400GB SATA2) > which are fine on a physical machine. I also ran Seatool many hours on > all of them without errors. > > I can partiton the disks and create a few files/directories on it. But > as soon as I copy a larger number of files to those disks (tried with > MBR and GPT) the VM reboots instantly (I tried cp, dump/restore and > rsync). No "Rebooting within 15 seconds", just snap. I think I can > see an panic but I'm not sure, it's too fast. > > (as far as I can see most of the times the data on the first UFS slice > (and only the first UFS slice!) of the partition gets severly > corrupted, most of the time all that is left are a few files within > lost+found. Sometimes all the labels are gone but are recoverable > using bsdlabel -R) > > The problem is that /var/crash remains empty. > > What can I do to create a backtrace to open a PR?
FWIW: While a sysinstall from CD (tried 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2) also dies short before the end of the installation, Ubuntu 10.4 (EXT4), Windows 7 and OpenBSD install fine and also do not die when copying a lots of files... :( _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"