problems installing on scsi disks ?
Vanilla x86 system with two identical scsi disks attached to a single 2940. Installation is flawless - in custom install, I choose da0 and then da1, one after the other, to partition. Again, I say, installation goes flawlessly. When the system boots though, it cannot get past the boot manager. I wait for it to time out and go to the default option, but it just beeps. Any attempt to hit enter, or f1, or f5, yields another beep. It will not boot. So, over five successive reloads, I have tried bootloader on da0, nothing on da1, bootloader on both, normal loader on da0, nothing on da1, and normal loader on both. No matter what combo I try with these two, it will not boot when I partition and label these two disks. It just gives me f1 and f5 choices, and hangs forever. (or, when I chose to put the loader but NOT the boot manager on both disks, it just comes up saying missing operating system) Also there are no silly scsi problems like ID conflict or bios not set to boot scsi or whatever. It is set to boot scsi just fine, and we know the disks, etc. are working since the installation goes without a hitch. Any ideas why I cannot do a simple install onto very plain hardware and disks ? thanks, Joesh _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
Re: problems installing on scsi disks ?
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:02:24AM -0700, Joesh Juphland wrote: Vanilla x86 system with two identical scsi disks attached to a single 2940. Installation is flawless - in custom install, I choose da0 and then da1, one after the other, to partition. Again, I say, installation goes flawlessly. When the system boots though, it cannot get past the boot manager. I wait for it to time out and go to the default option, but it just beeps. Any attempt to hit enter, or f1, or f5, yields another beep. It will not boot. So, over five successive reloads, I have tried bootloader on da0, nothing on da1, bootloader on both, normal loader on da0, nothing on da1, and normal loader on both. No matter what combo I try with these two, it will not boot when I partition and label these two disks. It just gives me f1 and f5 choices, and hangs forever. (or, when I chose to put the loader but NOT the boot manager on both disks, it just comes up saying missing operating system) This usually happens (in my experience, at least), when sysinstall and the kernel disagree about the disk geometry. Try checking the CHS values when the kernel detects the disk (is available in the scroll-back buffer in one of the vty's) and then change sysinstalls values accordingly. This is done in the fdisk menu with G, iirc. Also there are no silly scsi problems like ID conflict or bios not set to boot scsi or whatever. It is set to boot scsi just fine, and we know the disks, etc. are working since the installation goes without a hitch. Any ideas why I cannot do a simple install onto very plain hardware and disks ? thanks, Joesh _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message /Niels Chr. NB, tried replying in pm, but sender address bounces :( -- Niels Christian Bank-Pedersen, NCB1-RIPE. Hey, are any of you guys out there actually *using* RFC 2549? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message
SCSI disks.
Hi! I have the following problem: I installed FreeBSD 4.1 on Compaq Proliant with SCSI disks. I tried to change in kernel such parameters config kernel root on wd0 to config kernel root on id0 also I added such strings controller ida0 disk id0 at ida0 drive0 disk id1 at ida0 drive1 but when i try to config KERNEL_NAME I receive such message config id:unknown device config; line 36: no root device specified. If someone can help, please... Thank you very much... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
watching defects on scsi disks...
I was wondering if someone would like to clean up a bit of shell scripting
I wrote to attach a report of the defect list to the daily output... it
works great so far and thought I might as well share this w/ the rest of
people...
once it gets cleaned up, I have no problems w/ committing it to the tree,
it's just kinda ugly right now...
bak=/var/backups
echo ""
echo ""
echo "checking disks for defects:"
for i in `camcontrol devlist | awk '/(da|sd)/ { if (match($0, "(da|sd)[[:digit:]]+")
!= 0) { diskname = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH); match(diskname, "[[:digit:]]+");
print substr(diskname, RSTART, RLENGTH) } }' | sort -u`; do
if [ -f ${bak}/da${i}.glist ]; then
mv ${bak}/da${i}.glist ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak
fi
echo -n "da${i}: "
camcontrol defects -u $i -f phys -G 21 ${bak}/da${i}.glist
if [ -f ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak ]; then
if ! cmp -s ${bak}/da${i}.glist ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak; then
diff ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak ${bak}/da${i}.glist
fi
fi
done
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watching defects on scsi disks...
I was wondering if someone would like to clean up a bit of shell scripting
I wrote to attach a report of the defect list to the daily output... it
works great so far and thought I might as well share this w/ the rest of
people...
once it gets cleaned up, I have no problems w/ committing it to the tree,
it's just kinda ugly right now...
bak=/var/backups
echo
echo
echo checking disks for defects:
for i in `camcontrol devlist | awk '/(da|sd)/ { if (match($0,
(da|sd)[[:digit:]]+) != 0) { diskname = substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH);
match(diskname, [[:digit:]]+); print substr(diskname, RSTART, RLENGTH) } }' |
sort -u`; do
if [ -f ${bak}/da${i}.glist ]; then
mv ${bak}/da${i}.glist ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak
fi
echo -n da${i}:
camcontrol defects -u $i -f phys -G 21 ${bak}/da${i}.glist
if [ -f ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak ]; then
if ! cmp -s ${bak}/da${i}.glist ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak; then
diff ${bak}/da${i}.glist.bak ${bak}/da${i}.glist
fi
fi
done
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Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405
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The event is only the actualizing of its thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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