Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:08:08 +0200 From: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net> To: "Bolmerg-Berliner, Ludger - Munich" <LBolmerg@munichre.com>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: boot problem with MYLEX raid controller Message-ID: <20010927160810.CD70537B4CF@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <9CC75130B051D511B7F500034723859E211B2A@mxx0021.munich.munichre.com> References: <9CC75130B051D511B7F500034723859E211B2A@mxx0021.munich.munichre.com>
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On Thursday 27 September 2001 4:39 pm, Bolmerg-Berliner, Ludger - Munich wrote: > Hi > > I have a machine with a MYLEX raid controller configured for Raid 1. I have > successfully installed FreeBSD 4.2 on that machine. When I try boot from > disk I just get a "operating system not found message" > > I can boot from CD, interrupt the boot process, set the current device to > the disk and than boot from disk. > > dmesg shows the following messages: > > ... > mlx0: <Mylex version 5 RAID interface> port 0x2000-0x207f mem > 0xfc000000-0xfdffffff,0xfa410000-0xfa41007f irq 15 at device 8.0 on pci3 > mlx0: controller initialisation in progress... > mlx0: initialisation complete. > mlx0: DAC1164PVX, 3 channels, firmware 5.07-0-87, 32MB RAM > mlxd0: <Mylex System Drive> on mlx0 > mlxd0: 8679MB (17774592 sectors) RAID 1 (online) > mlxd1: <Mylex System Drive> on mlx0 > mlxd1: 17299MB (35428352 sectors) RAID 1 (online) > .... > Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle > sa0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > sa0: <HP C1537A L708> Removable Sequential Access SCSI-2 device > sa0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 32) > no devsw (majdev=0 bootdev=0xa0200000) > cd0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 > cd0: <NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:466 1.17> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device > cd0: 20.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 16) > cd0: cd present [329626 x 2048 byte records] > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/mlxd0s1a > > What puzzles me is the fact that I cannot read the disklabel from the disk. > # disklabel -r mlxd0 > disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is > unlabeled) > > and reading the disklabel from memory shows strange entries: > # disklabel mlxd0 > # /dev/mlxd0: > type: SCSI > disk: amnesiac > label: fictitious > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 32 > tracks/cylinder: 128 > sectors/cylinder: 4096 > cylinders: 4339 > sectors/unit: 17774592 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > drivedata: 0 > > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: > 17774592 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4339*) > > Any glue what could be wrong? there is a drive geometry option in the controller setup, one of the options is for drives > 8gb...that is the one you should NOT be using. I can't remember the other option... it is either < 2gb or <8gb but that is the one you want. -- Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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