From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 19 18:35:07 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F85E16A407 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from diri.bris.ac.uk (diri.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E2D913C491 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:35:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from isis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.63]) by diri.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IBaq8-0001M6-UU; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:35:06 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.184.33]) by isis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IBaoo-00062f-4b; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:33:42 +0100 Received: from mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost.men.bris.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l6JIXCum047241; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:33:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from shterenl@localhost) by mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l6JIXChc047240; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:33:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk: shterenl set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:33:12 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Nikos Ntarmos Message-ID: <20070719183312.GA47203@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Nikos Ntarmos , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org References: <20070719120010.GA43146@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk> <20070719174754.GA14288@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070719174754.GA14288@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Spam-Score: -1.2 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partitioning program does not see scsi disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:35:07 -0000 On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 08:47:55PM +0300, Nikos Ntarmos wrote: > Hi there. > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:00:11PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > and I can see the disk detected correctly by sym during boot: > [...] > > but after that I cannot see the disk (this is a screen copy): > > This is usually caused by the disk not having a bsd disklabel, which > is (also usually) corrected with a > # disklabel -W da0; dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/rda0c bs=8k count=1 > > > Now, how do I do that? Do I actually need to remove the disk from > > alpha and put in some other unix box? > > It's been years since I last installed FreeBSD/alpha but I seem to > remember there was a shell fired up on VTY4 (and there is always the > "Fixit" sysinstall(8) option that drops you to a shell). thanks, I already figured this out. The actual commands were: Fixit# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=32 32+0 records in 32+0 records out 16384 bytes transferred in 0.445921 secs (36742 bytes/sec) Fixit# bsdlabel -w da0 I'm thinking of adding a short paragraph on this under 4.2 Common Installation Problems for Alpha/AXP Architecture Users in FreeBSD/alpha 6.2-RELEASE Installation Instructions http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/installation-alpha.html (that section is empty at present). thanks a lot anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423