Hi, I'm trying to create a mirrored / and swap during the jumpstart build process, but I keep getting errors when JS tries to create the metadbs. I'm currently trying Nevada b52 on x86 (on VMWare with 2 emulated SCSI disks), but also tried S10 0606 with the same results.
My jumpstart profile has: install_type initial_install system_type standalone partitioning explicit fdisk all solaris maxfree metadb c1t0d0s3 metadb c1t1d0s3 filesys mirror c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0 7300 / filesys mirror c1t0d0s1 c1t1d0s1 500 swap During the JS install, the process errors out with --------------------------------------------------------- Creating SVM State Replica on disk c1t0d0s3 metadb: test2: c1t0d0s3: device size 24576 is too small for metadevice database replica Creating SVM State Replica on disk c1t1d0s3 metadb: test2: c1t1d0s3: device size 24576 is too small for metadevice database replica --------------------------------------------------------- If I look at the JS installer's /tmp/create_mirror script, I see .... /usr/bin/echo "Creating SVM State Replica on disk c1t0d0s3" /usr/sbin/metadb -a -f -c 3 -l 8192 c1t0d0s3 /usr/bin/echo "Creating SVM State Replica on disk c1t1d0s3" /usr/sbin/metadb -a -f -c 3 -l 8192 c1t1d0s3 .... The disks appear to be partitioned fine (both have the settings below) --------------------------------------------------------- Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks 0 root wm 251 - 3900 7.13GB (3650/0/0) 14950400 1 swap wu 1 - 250 500.00MB (250/0/0) 1024000 2 backup wm 0 - 4091 7.99GB (4092/0/0) 16760832 3 unassigned wm 3901 - 3906 12.00MB (6/0/0) 24576 8 boot wu 0 - 0 2.00MB (1/0/0) 4096 --------------------------------------------------------- If I manually run the metadb command, one thing I noticed is that the first metadb is placed at an offset of 16 blocks (I assume to prevent over-writing the bootblock). What I think may be the problem is that JS is allocating only exactly enough space on the slice for the metadbs, but really it should be allocating that space +8k to allow for the 16 block offset. This message posted from opensolaris.org
