From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 12:07:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B31416A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:07:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail23.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FE7243D48 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:07:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 32127 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2005 12:07:44 -0000 Received: from server.baldwin.cx ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 26 Apr 2005 12:07:44 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.15] (osx.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3QC7Xjb031963; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:07:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Baldwin Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:07:33 -0400 To: "Gorkum, L. van (Luitzen)" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on server.baldwin.cx cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installing on a Mylex DAC960 18Gb Raid1 (2 disks) X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:07:45 -0000 On Apr 25, 2005, at 10:31 AM, Gorkum, L. van (Luitzen) wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install de 5.3 version on our AlphaServer 1200 with Mylex > DAC960 controller. > Because the first disks are reserved for OpenVMS I placed two 18Gb > disks > on the last two slots and made it a Raid1 disk. This disk appears as > the > fith disk. The boot from CDROM (disk1) shows that device, sysinstall > lets me select it but then I don't see the unused (free) space and as a > result of that I can't create any partition and mountpoints. > > Does anyone recognize this and/or has a solution/hint? Boot up into sysinstall and use the fixit CD option. When you get into the shell prompt, use 'bsdlabel' to create a label on the the mlxd0 disk. Once there is a label there, sysinstall will be able to work with the disk, so once you've created a label (it doesn't have to have the correct values on it, so you can just use 'bsdlabel -W auto') reboot into sysinstall and you should be able to mess with the disk. I'm sorry that I haven't had time to track down the source of this bug. It's been broken since 5.0 (back from when GEOM came in :( ). -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org