Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:21:51 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: tomb <tomb@cgf.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum causes fatal double fault kernel panic Message-ID: <20000410152151.I19079@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <38F16ACE.F93E576E@cgf.net> References: <38F0359F.E45937FC@cgf.net> <38F0C358.D120908@cgf.net> <38F0359F.E45937FC@cgf.net> <20000410104141.C17984@freebie.lemis.com> <38F16ACE.F93E576E@cgf.net>
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On Sunday, 9 April 2000 at 22:46:54 -0700, tomb wrote: > Greg, > > So I have just looked at the man page for disklabel and followed > your suggestion. This is what I got: I added the line that defines > a: 8496884............ As you can see disklabel complained, but I > just answered no. Meaning that you failed. > The same result happened with the second disk. Yes, it would do. > At this point I have not done anything to the disk's (like newfs or > /stand/sysinstall) they are low-level formatted only. That's all you need. I'm assuming that you're using an older version of FreeBSD. Do 'disklabel -e da0' and it should work. > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 8496884 0 vinum 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 528*) > c: 8496884 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 528*) > > disklabel: Operation not supported by device > re-edit the label? [y]: > > Despite this rejection I run: > su-2.03# vinum create config > 1: drive a device "/dev/da0" > ** 1 e: Unknown error: -1 Hmm. > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Sunday, 9 April 2000 at 0:47:43 -0700, tomb wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I've been attempting to create a mirrored pair of disc's. I'm not >>> concerned about performance only the backup of my critical data. Armed >>> with a pair of scsi drives (same model) and the man pages I came up with >>> a config file (listed below). The problem is that if I use this to >>> setup the mirro I get a >>> "fatal double fault" <<cut>> panic: double fault >>> message and the machine reboots. >> >> At what point? > > When I do the create command: > bash# vinum create config Hmm. That doesn't tie up with what you said above. Is the crash still happening? Anyway, you need to label your disks first. In addition, read http://www.lemis.com/vinum/how-to-debug.html and send me any further information if you need to. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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