From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 4 09:26:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96A07106568B for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:26:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from asclepius3.uwa.edu.au (asclepius3.uwa.edu.au [130.95.128.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08DE78FC19 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 09:26:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au) Received: from kas30pipe.localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by panacea.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2046387DFC for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:03 +0800 (WST) Received: from panacea (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by panacea.prekas (Postfix) with SMTP id A0F5187DFD for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:02 +0800 (WST) X-UWA-Client-IP: 130.95.13.9 (UWA) Received: from mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.9]) by panacea.extinput (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FDFA87DFC for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:02 +0800 (WST) Received: by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 801) id 2FE03367E1; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:01 +0800 (WST) Received: from martello.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (martello.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au [130.95.13.23]) by mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0946E367DE for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:01 +0800 (WST) Received: by martello.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix, from userid 11251) id C92666C09B; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:00 +0800 (WST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by martello.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E7E6C09A for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:00 +0800 (WST) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:26:00 +0800 (WST) From: David Adam To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4206 [July 4 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release Subject: Re: BTX errors on Intel SR1200 following gvinum ?crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:26:37 -0000 It looks like the problems I experienced below were due to creating a vinum volume starting at offset 0, instead of offset 16, thus overwriting the bootloader. I realise this is documented - apologies for the noise. Thanks, David Adam zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, David Adam wrote: > I have a reasonably old (P3-class) Intel SR1200 which has three SCSI > drives installed. I've installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE over NFS onto the > first drive. > > While configuring gvinum, I issued the following commands: > > --- > blade# gvinum > gvinum -> list > 1 drive: > D r0 State: down /dev/da0s1b A: 32677/32677 MB > (100%) > > 0 volumes: > > 0 plexes: > > 0 subdisks: > gvinum -> rm r0 > --- > > At this point, my SSH session to the machine stopped responding and > eventually timed out. I presume it rebooted; I didn't get to the console > in time, and this was all that was displayed: > > int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010246 eip=0000275c > eax=00091300 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=00000004 edi=00003dd4 ebp=00000000 esp=000903fc > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > cs:eip=f0 49 08 28 00 82 07 28-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > ss:esp=29 20 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > BTX halted > > This error persists on reboot. I have tried using sysinstall to rewrite > the MBR (with /boot/mbr-style booting). > > The partition table looks like this: > --- > blade# bsdlabel da0s1 > # /dev/da0s1: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 4194304 66924544 4.2BSD 0 0 0 > b: 66924544 0 vinum > c: 71119692 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit > --- > > Some web searching of the various values has turned up no information > that I can understand; where should I go from here? > > The FreeBSD installer disc1 boots ok on this machine, as did the > 7.0-RELEASE install until the gvinum crash. Getting a dmesg out of the > machine is proving to be a little challenging but if required I will > provide this tomorrow. > > Please keep me in the reply chain; I am not subscribed to -questions. > > Thanks, > > David Adam > zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au