Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 16:27:52 -0700 From: "Vinod Kashyap" <vkashyap@amcc.com> To: Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz> Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> Subject: RE: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel Message-ID: <I1HFUJ03.4XX@hadar.amcc.com>
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> >> > >>Vinod Kashyap wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Can you try booting off the installation CD/floppies and running > >>>sysinstall from there? > >>> > >> > >>Ok, I tried to boot from > >> 1) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/ twa.ko loaded (from 3ware.com) > >> 2) 5.2.1 i386 ISO w/o twa.ko > >> 2) 5.2-CURRENT amd64 ISO from snapshots.se.freebsd.org > >> 3) My own 5.2-CURRENT iso > >> > > = > > = > > Try using whatever method you used to boot at the time of installing > > -CURRENT. > > = > = > I managed to get it to boot from CD with the -CURRENT snapshot (my = > problem was the bootloader didn't seem to like the machine = > having serial = > console redirect on in the BIOS). Now I can successfully FDisk and = > Disklabel the volume. When the installer tries to run newfs = > it hangs. It = > shows me the dialog (the Running newfs -U -O2 /dev/da0s1) in = > the first = > pty and in the 2nd (or 3rd?) pty it has the first few lines = > of the newfs = > output but never starts printing out the (inode?) numbers. > = As I have written earlier to some mailing lists, twa has not been tested on amd64 as yet, and is not supported by 3ware. Since there seem to be quite a few people interested in amd64 support, I am trying to see what I can do about it. > Just to make sure my card isn't dud I installed RHEL and used = > the 64bit = > kernel module from 3ware.com and it works fine. > = > Thanks for your help. > = > Philip > = > = > = >
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