I have been able to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a Netserver using the onboard SCSI card. However it will not install if I use the HP 1si NetRaid card for the SCSI drives.
So it appears to be having a problem with the HP 1si NetRaid card.
Any suggestions or advice?
Lino Webzone
lists wrote:
Further to this problem, I have tried installing FreeBSD5.3 on a second hp netserver and I continue to get the same problem during the install process.
"Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)"
After two weeks of stuffing around I am giving up on 5.3 - there is clearly something wrong with 5.3 - there does not appear to be anything wrong with the hardware - its appears to be a FreeBSD 5.3 issue -. I have gone back to 4.10 which installs fine. Somewhere between 4.10 and 5.3 something has broken in relation to an installation on a netserver box.
Has anyone else got a hp netserver LC2000r or similar box and been able to get 5.3 installed?
Lino
lists wrote:
It looks like it is having a problem relating to the mounting the drives. When I rerun the FreeBSD5.3 install a second time - it lists the drives from the first install but they are missing the mount locations.
Any suggestions on a work around?
Lino
lists wrote:
Loren M. Lang wrote:
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:33PM +1030, Lino Fusco wrote:
Hi,
I am a newbie to this list and I hope I am posting to the correct list - apologies if I am off target.
I am installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a hp netserver LC2000r. The box is a dual processor P3 with three scsi2 drives running in a raid1 configuration with one hot spare.
We have six of these boxes. Three of them are running FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9 without a hitch.
I decided to install 5.3 from CD on a fourth box and I am having a problem.
I go through the install process. When it goes to write the file structure to the drives it does this in a around 1 second - this seems very fast. Then it starts copying from the CD and I quickly get the following error:
"Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)"
I click ok and the next error message is:
"unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0, do you want to try to retrieve it again?".
So this has started me troubleshooting the possible causes of the problem:
1) First stop was to suspect the freebsd iso I had burnt was suspect. So I re burnt the cd and the problem persisted. I then suspected the ISO I had downloaded was corrupted. So I downloaded it again, burnt the cd but the problem still persisted.
2) I then suspected the second copy could have come from a cache and therefore may have the same problem as the first copy - so I checked the md5 signature but it lines up with the original from freebsd.org
3) I suspected the CD Rom drive - so I swapped it with one of our other Netserver boxes - problem still persisted.
4)I suspected a drive formatting problem - so I went back into the SCSI software, redid the raid drives and reformatted them - problem still persisted.
5) I suspected another hardware problem - so I pulled out FreeBSD 4.9 to see if that would install - and it did install without any errors. That sort of discounts there being any hardware problems. It points to something specific to freebsd 5.3.
So this is where I have got to - FreeBSD 4.9 will install without errors but 5.3 will not install.
I suspect the problem has to do with the initial setting up of the file structure - 5.3 is doing this in about one second whereas 4.9 takes closer to a minute to do this.
Any thoughts or suggestion?
I believe FreeBSD 5.3 does support using UFS 1 in the install, just
check the option in the disklabel program, but if the partitioning also
fails then that may not be the problem.
Lino
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Hi,
Tried setting the partitions to UFS1 - FreeBSD 5.3 then takes closer to a minute to setup the partitions just like 4.9 - but still get the same error message when it goes to copy the files.
Thanks but did not work.
Lino
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