Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:20:39 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: fdisk, sysinstall and 6.1-BETA3/amd64 Message-ID: <200603151920.39450.matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk>
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Hi folks, I'm moving a server over to amd64 in the next week or so and I'm preparing the RAID1 disk set with the 64 bit ports as we speak. I came across a nasty little bug whilst doing so. Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-K8U with a ULi SATA controller and AR0 set up as a RAID1 array using FreeBSD pseudo-RAID (ULi's metadata isn't supported). So far, so good. Then into sysinstall to create the partitions. To have the required number of partitions (to make my dump script easier to manage) I need two slices. The problem is that the BETA3 sysinstall marks both slices active, causing the BIOS to halt on boot with an "Invalid partition table" error. Is this a bug, or is this something I'm doing wrong. Never had this problem before, and the server has always had two slices on a RAID1 (RAID5 on the Proliant) array, although admittedly on i386. It's easy enough to fix (just fdisk -a /dev/ar0 from a fixit and mark slice 1 as active) but it's rather annoying. -- Matt Dawson. matt@mattsnetwork.co.uk MTD15-RIPE OpenNIC M_D9 MD51-6BONE
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