From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 20 22:59:20 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 382C016A419 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:59:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomh@motorsport.com) Received: from montecarlo.motorsport.com (montecarlo.motorsport.com [64.235.98.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BA1E13C455 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:59:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomh@motorsport.com) Received: from [172.16.172.8] (CPE000ded900fa2-CM001225449c2c.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.235.203.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by montecarlo.motorsport.com (8.12.10/8.12.3) with ESMTP id m0KMfAXn000575 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:41:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from tomh@motorsport.com) Message-ID: <4793CE01.2020507@motorsport.com> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:41:05 -0500 From: Tom Haapanen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 7.0RC1 install to amr RAID array fails 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: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:59:20 -0000 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