Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:41:05 -0500 From: Tom Haapanen <tomh@motorsport.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 7.0RC1 install to amr RAID array fails Message-ID: <4793CE01.2020507@motorsport.com>
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OK, I'm stumped. We run an (almost) all-FreeBSD site, with the only
exception being the MySQL server; it has been running Fedora due to the
better Linux threading performance. I have been unhappy with both the
management tools on Linux (not the same ...) and the reliability of the
ext3 filesystem, so with the appearance of FreeBSD 7.0, I saw the
opportunity to move back to FreeBSD for the database as well.
The setup?
* FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 amd64
* Dual Opteron 2216 (dual core)
* 6 GB of memory
* LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-2
* 4x 36GB SCSI in a RAID-5 array (plus two hot spares)
Booting from a bootonly CD, the system happily starts sysinstall, and I
can go through the installation steps, partitioning the primary and only
disk (amrd0) and creating the filesystems. When I begin the commit step,
the filesystem appears to get created correctly.
However, once sysinstall begins downloading the packages using FTP, it
fails to write them with a "unable to write data - file system full"
error (the root file system was configured as 2 GB).
Using the Alt+F4 emergency shell, I am able to cd to /bin, but little
else. It does appear that the file system does exist, though. I have
used the MegaRAID BIOS to ensure that the logical volume is consistent,
and have re-initialized it, but with no difference. Unfortunately I'm
doing the install on the console, not serial, so I have no dmesg log to
share.
I do recall using the amr driver with an HP NetRAID card with an earlier
version of FreeBSD (possibly 5.x), but I can't remember whether it was
the boot device, like it is here.
Can anyone offer suggestions for wrestling down this problem?
Thanks ...
Tom Haapanen
tomh@motorsport.com
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