Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:05:20 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't get vinum to work Message-ID: <19981020110520.E433@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981019032916.A27956@top.worldcontrol.com>; from brian@worldcontrol.com on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 03:29:16AM -0700 References: <19981018215221.A27539@top.worldcontrol.com> <19981019143824.G4015@freebie.lemis.com> <19981019032916.A27956@top.worldcontrol.com>
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On Monday, 19 October 1998 at 3:29:16 -0700, brian@worldcontrol.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 02:38:24PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> I suspect your real problem is that /dev/da1h and /dev/da2h are set >> with file system type 4.2BSD. This is appropriate for making UFS file >> systems, and for some obscure reason ccd requires it, but it's a >> sure-fire recipe for shooting yourself in the foot. Vinum will >> ultimately require a file system type 'vinum', but currently it >> insists on 'unused'. > > My troubles seem to be more basic and probably unrelated to vinum. > > A simple 'disklabel -e da1' brings up the editor screen with > a very reasonable set of numbers. Exiting the editor results in an: > > label: Operation not supported by device > > and a pair of messages in /var/log/messages: > > Oct 19 03:26:40 bls2 /kernel: da1: cannot find label (no disk label) > Oct 19 03:26:40 bls2 /kernel: da1s1: cannot find label (no disk label) > > I resupped and issued a make world just in case there is some > out-of-syncness someplace. No, this looks like a brand new disk. The easiest way to write the original disk label is probably with /stand/sysinstall. Choose the partition editor and write the partition information with the 'w' command. > I may have forgotten the mention the system is SMP. That doesn't make any difference yet. We have seen some problems with SMP, but we're not sure where they're coming from and whether it's relevant that it's an SMP system. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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