RE: [ 4.2- > 4.7 upgrade halted ]
Good day, > "make buildworld" return good result, but when I try to "make > buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL" process stop in a part of depend with > SCSI devices and halt. You can't expect much help if you don't post the relevant output. > I try to cvsup'ing with 4.7 RELENG and 4.4 RELENG...but the result is > the same. > > If you can, please tell me about the way how I can to upgrade > from 4.2 > to 4.7 RELEASE, I need ipfw2 on this box. Try the 4.7 GENERIC kernel first. If that works, then find out what you did wrong with your kernel config file. Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
RE: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960?
Good day, It's been about a week since I posted this, so, I'd just like to ask one more time before I give up testing and just put Linux back on the machine. The machine that I'm now trying to install FreeBSD on is a HP lp2000r netserver, dual P3 1GHz, AcceleRAID 160 PCI RAID Controller (also a DAC960, but using FreeBSD's mly driver), and installing via CD on a standard ATAPI CDROM drive. As documented on the 5.0 hardware release notes, the package installation just stops a few minutes after it starts. The same thing happens if I try a FTP install using floppies. I then tried 4.8-RC2 and 4.7-RELEASE. In both cases, the installer does load the mly module, and the module does indeed find the RAID controller (as noted on the debug screen) but it doesn't find any drives. I finally went all the way back to 4.6-RELEASE, which detected my hardware properly and with which I successfully did the install. So, again, I'd like to try out 5.0 on this machine just to do some benchmarking on how far smp support has come. I have a working 4.6 system on it, so I could try to do this the hard way with cvsup/makeworld/mergemaster, but what gotchas are there to doing this? 4.X uses gcc 2 and 5.x uses gcc 3, and of course it's going up a major version, so I'm not quite sure what to expect. Is there any other way to get 5.0-RELEASE/CURRENT on this system? Thanks in advance, ==== Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
RE: FreeBSD install fails on a DAC960 RAID array
Good day, > -Original Message- > From: Ryan Merrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 6:48 AM > To: Darren Gamble > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FreeBSD install fails on a DAC960 RAID array > > Hello, > > It has been a while since I have seen a DAC960, but this problem was > solved by setting the partition size to 2GIGs instead of 8GIGs in the > RAID BIOS. > > -Ryan Thanks for your help! We'll give that a shot. Just so that I understand this situation a bit better... why does that solve the problem? Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
FreeBSD install fails on a DAC960 RAID array
Good day, I posted a question last week on my inability to get FreeBSD installed on a machine with a Mylex DAC960PTL1 RAID array. I had originally attributed the problem to a bug mentioned on the 5.0 release errata page which describes my condition, but after further testing I am not so sure anymore. The machine in question is a NEC, dual 733MZ P3 with a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller. I'm performing the install via floppy/FTP. Immediately prior to the installation, the machine was running Red Hat Linux 7.2 , occupying the entire disk array, and functioning great. That installation has since been deleted, as I've attempted to install FreeBSD using the entire disk array. The installation proceeds fine, but the machine hangs upon reboot at the boot manager prompt. If I try again and install the default boot loader instead of the boot manager, I get "Missing Operating System". I've so far tried 5.0-RELEASE, 4.8-RC2 and 4.7-RELEASE (using their respective installation floppies) with identical results. These symptoms match exactly installation FAQ entries 3.21 and 3.22 . However, the former suggests to resolve a conflict between two operating systems conflicting over disk geometry, and I only have FreeBSD installed, using the entire disk array. The latter FAQ suggests the problem is with the BIOS not detecting the disk properly. However, I am really not sure what I need to do here, since I know the BIOS/controller are able to work with large partition sizes due to the previous success with Red Hat. The only difference, of course, is that the Linux installation had several partitions while FreeBSD uses the single partition with slices. Lastly, I am not even positive that FreeBSD supports booting from this drive. The card initially identifies itself as a "DAC960PTL1" in the name, which doesn't exactly match any of the DAC960 cards listed on the hardware page. FreeBSD is able to ID and work with the drive, etc. when the mlx driver module is loaded, so I would guess that this isn't a problem. I'm at a loss as to what I can do. Sorry for making this message so large, but I wanted to be comprehensive. Thanks in advance, Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
RE: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960?
Good day, > Hi Darren! Thanks for your reply! Sorry for not checking my messages over the weekend. > > My only other thought was to install from 4.X and upgrade > to 5.0, but I > > think that would be far too messy considering their > differences. We also > > have other machines of varying hardware to install on, but > they all use > > DAC960 RAID controllers too. > > Is there a specific reason why you *have* to run 5.0? I > assume that you have > read the Early Adopter's Guide. Yes, and yes. Specifically, it's a dual-proc machine, and we'd like to see how well SMB support has advanced in 5.0 . We'd just like to run some benchmarking programs on it, and also for our team to play around with the newest FreeBSD (most of our group has grown up on Linux, but like to try out new things). I've also read that the 5.0 kernel still has some debugging code put into it for help with troubleshooting various things- thus slowing it down a bit- which we'll be taking into consideration. > FWIW, I'm happily running 4.7-RELEASE-p6 on DAC960PG (yes, > mlx driver). Yeah, the 5.0 release notes mentioned that this was a problem introduced in 5.0 . Anyway, again, could anyone give me some information on how I could actually do this install? I should also mention that I tried the install by changing "5.0-RELEASE" into "5.0-CURRENT" in the install configuration menu, but the installer isn't able to retrieve any packages. I presume this is because the packages are kept in a "packages" subdirectory in the "5.0-CURRENT" directory on the FTP server, unlike the "5.0-RELEASE" packages, so I'm guessing that probably isn't really designed as an installation method. Maybe if I set up my own FTP server with the packages in the right location... ? Thanks in advance, Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
How to install 5.0 using a DAC960?
Good day, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a NEC machine with a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller. The machine was running Red Hat Linux before, and I've done a number of FreeBSD installations, so I didn't expect any problems. The install goes fine, however, after the reboot the machine immediately hangs at the Boot Manager prompt. The errata page for 5.0-RELEASE mentions: mly(4) Hangs were reported during FreeBSD 5.0 snapshot installations when installing to mly(4)-supported RAID arrays, in hardware configurations that appear to work fine under FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. These problems have been corrected in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. This certainly appears to match the symptoms, however the documentation says the DAC960 uses the "mlx" driver, not the "mly" driver (and the "mlx" driver was the one I loaded from the driver disk during the install). In the hopes that this was the same problem, I tried looking for snapshots for 5.0-CURRENT newer than -RELEASE on the various mirror sites, just so that I could get the install done, but none were found. My only other thought was to install from 4.X and upgrade to 5.0, but I think that would be far too messy considering their differences. We also have other machines of varying hardware to install on, but they all use DAC960 RAID controllers too. How can I actually get FreeBSD 5.0-anything on this machine? Please reply if there's any other information that I could supply. Thanks in advance, Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
