Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:25:47 -0800 (PST) From: Patrick Thomas <user@utility.clubscholarship.com> To: "Long, Scott" <Scott_Long@btc.adaptec.com> Cc: <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Dell PERC 2/QC only supples four containers to FreeBSD - MORE Message-ID: <20020308112252.J93765-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> In-Reply-To: <CEDF5AA24668244F8D529010E2955A940A7608@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com>
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mknod isnot available to the energency holographic shell, however it _is_ available to FIXIT. However, I think I will try installing the system with just the four disks, booting into a live system, mknod from a live system, then rerun /stand/sysinstall and run partition and label from the post-install configuration section. Do you think _all_ that needs to happen is that the nodes exist, or do you think further modifications (like recomppiling the kernel to support more than four aacX) ? I will be trying it within an hour or so and will post the results. --pt > > This is just a guess, since I'm on the road and don't have my the sources to > sysinstall handy. I imagine that sysinstall gets a list of storage devices > from the kernel, then attempts to open each one. Only /dev/aacd0-3 exist by > default, so aacd4-5 cannot be opened because no entries exist. If I'm > right, then this might not be easy to work around, since I doubt that mknod > is available to the 'Emergency holographic shell'. Maybe sysinstall can be > taught how to create devices in this situation; I'll look into it later. > The error about cd0 is most likely unrelated. > > Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Patrick Thomas [mailto:user@utility.clubscholarship.com] > > Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 12:40 AM > > To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org > > Subject: Dell PERC 2/QC only supples four containers to FreeBSD - MORE > > > > > > > > one other note - I pressed 'alt-f2' while in sysinstall, and > > I saw these > > messages at the bottom of the screen: > > > > > > DEBUG: Unable to open disk aacd4 > > DEBUG: Unable to open disk aacd5 > > DEBUG: Unable to open disk cd0 > > > > > > Those are the two disks I am missing ... no idea why cd0 > > would not be able > > to be opened, since I am booting off of the only cdrom in the > > system and > > am at this point by virtue of using it successfully... > > > > So hopefully this information helps. I think this means > > perhaps it is not > > due to a lack of /dev nodes like I originally thought, > > because if so why > > would it be attempting to open them ? > > > > help / comments appreciated. > > > > --pt > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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