On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:43 +0000, "Rob Sheldon" <r...@associatedtechs.com> wrote:

[snip]

> softraid0 at root
> root on sd1a swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
> 
> ...that's odd, it's showing swap (and dump) on sd1b, but there's no such
> thing:
> 
> $ sudo df /dev/sd1b
> df: /dev/sd1b: Device not configured
>
> ...maybe it really doesn't like running without swap?

It's there. disklabel -vh sd1 and you'll see b is swap. Try swapctl as well... 
also dmesg | grep swap:

root on sd1a swap on sd1b dump on sd1b
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^

> Oh wait, it's showing only 3G of memory installed. I just physically
> checked the machine, and it has 4 full banks of 2G each. amd64 should be
> able to address that, right?

I think you would need a bigmem enabled kernel.
 
> That could certainly explain why fsck is unhappy.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - R.
> 
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