Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use gmirror? Is it completelly transparent and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild started? I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap) Artem Yes. In fact, you can test this by unplugging the data or power cable to a drive while the server is running. I've done this with consumer sata drives and, so far, not had a problem. The server stays up and running and disk access is not interrupted. I can then plug in a new disk and add it to the gmirror and the array rebuilds. I've not tried this with gpt, so I can't comment there. -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting Problem
On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable option. What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an external hard drive? 9.1 release - Generic. Basically the disk1. Don't have an extra external drive. Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the drive, and put it back. From that point on you should be able to use the network to upgrade. I have done that before and it does work. However, with the various changes to the system, the root partition I had previously built that way for 8.2 is just not large enough for 9.1. Also, I wanted to go to a single partition (the 9.1 default). Probably freebsd-update will take me through major releases after this, but I was hoping for a better solution so I could avoid having to transport the machine a long way twice to be able to update it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting Problem
On 1/29/2013 10:25 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an external hard drive? Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the drive, and put it back. From that point on you should be able to use the network to upgrade. I had to do something like this to try out PC-BSD years ago. I had one computer that wouldn't boot the install CD. I moved the hard drive to a computer that would boot the install CD. The catch was the computer that could boot the install CD wouldn't boot PC-BSD from the hard drive. Sometimes you just find hardware that doesn't behave. I'd also double check your BIOS settings for USB emulation. Most external CD drives are just an IDE or SATA drive with an adapter. If you take it apart, you can put the drive into the computer and see if skipping the USB helps it to boot. It's also a nice way to find a cheap drive. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Network PHY driver source code
Hi all, Could you guide me where I can find all the supported PHY driver source code details ? I want to know what are the PHY drivers supported within Freebsd 9.1 Release. Please help me on this. Regards Hrisikesh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one partition on a drive, a rebuild after replacing a drive could thrash the heads as mirrors are rebuilt simultaneously. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html So, gmirror+GPT=conflict on last sector GPT+gmirror = hardrive head kill nice... So, for no more than 2TB disks the best way to go is GMIRROR of the drive +PARTITION on top of it? GPT partitions should work, just limit it to one mirrored partition per drive. Please, clarify what you mean here. Or maybe there is a way to instruct gmirror do rebuild only what i say (manual rebuild) ? 'gmirror configure -n' ? Have not tried it. The trick would be to do that before multiple mirrors start rebuilding, which they will as soon as geom_mirror.ko is loaded. As i understand from the man page -n setup the device not to auto rebuild ever. So, this is probably the thing i want. I need to setup a test system and play with it a bit. Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Network PHY driver source code
On 01/30/2013 12:13 PM, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: Hi all, Could you guide me where I can find all the supported PHY driver source code details ? I want to know what are the PHY drivers supported within Freebsd 9.1 Release. Please help me on this. Regards Hrisikesh Hi My guess: /usr/src/sys/dev/mii ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting Problem
Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the same drive on the same machine? Not so far. The drive works fine on other systems. You said in your orginal post The bios will not boot from USB stick. I see no reason why you would think your PC would BOOT from any USB attached devices. Since you have another PC that does boot off of usb cd drive, swap hard drives and use that pc to load FreeBSD to the hard drive. This method will work for you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin
Rasel Ahmed wrote: Please help me what the applied host in website ? Sent from my iPhone You have to provide details of your problem before some one can help you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote: I am planning to use mirror configuration of two SATA 7200rpm 2TB disks. I personally vote for gmirror in this case; I've used it a lot and found it very good wrt to both performance and robustness. You can spend the extra money you spare on the controller buying good disks; as someone else pointed out don't get desktop-class ones, but 24x7 ones. Just my 2c. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Network PHY driver source code
Thanks a lot for quick reply. There is no file within /usr/src folder. Could you please tell me how to get those source files for freebsd 9.1 release? On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 01/30/2013 12:13 PM, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: Hi all, Could you guide me where I can find all the supported PHY driver source code details ? I want to know what are the PHY drivers supported within Freebsd 9.1 Release. Please help me on this. Regards Hrisikesh Hi My guess: /usr/src/sys/dev/mii __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to mirror GPT partitions, but be aware that if you mirror more than one partition on a drive, a rebuild after replacing a drive could thrash the heads as mirrors are rebuilt simultaneously. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html So, gmirror+GPT=conflict on last sector GPT+gmirror = hardrive head kill nice... So, for no more than 2TB disks the best way to go is GMIRROR of the drive +PARTITION on top of it? GPT partitions should work, just limit it to one mirrored partition per drive. Please, clarify what you mean here. If only one GPT partition on a drive is mirrored with another GPT partition on another drive, head contention never comes up. There is only one mirror. It does nearly eliminate the usefulness of GPT partitioning. Um... and how can i do that if i have a simple mirror with two drives and want to mirror everything on them? As i understand i will have at least bootable, swap and ufs parttions on those drives, that is 3 partitions at least. Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Network PHY driver source code
On 01/30/2013 02:43 PM, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: Thanks a lot for quick reply. There is no file within /usr/src folder. Could you please tell me how to get those source files for freebsd 9.1 release? You didn't install the sources when installing FreeBSD? For 9.1-RELEASE i386 you can get the sources from ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/mirror/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.1-RELEASE/src.txz for instance or the amd64 sources from ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/mirror/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/9.1-RELEASE/src.txz Then unpack with tar xf src.txc The result is usr/src unpacked in your current directory, move src to /usr/src On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 01/30/2013 12:13 PM, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: Hi all, Could you guide me where I can find all the supported PHY driver source code details ? I want to know what are the PHY drivers supported within Freebsd 9.1 Release. Please help me on this. Regards Hrisikesh Hi My guess: /usr/src/sys/dev/mii ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: You can spend the extra money you spare on the controller buying good disks; as someone else pointed out don't get desktop-class ones, but 24x7 ones. Server Class drives buy you some improvement, but my recent experience with Seagate Barracuda ES.2 drives is not that good. I have had 50% of them fail within the 5-year warranty period. My disks run 24x7 and I use ZFS under FreeBSD 9 so I have not lost any data. I have: 2 x Seagate ES.2 250 GB (one has failed) 4 x Seagate ES.2 1 TB (two have failed) 2 x Hitachi UltraStar 1 TB (pre-WD acquisition), no failures, but they are less than 2 years old. They are also noticeably faster than the Seagate ES.2 I just ordered 2 x WD RE4 500 GB, we'll see how those do I go out of my way to purchase disks with a 5-year warranty, they are still out there but you have to look for them. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
There seems to be one more advantage to gmirror If i understood correctly gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0 da1 da2 will create a tripple mirror raid 1, that is triple redundancy, which is hardly available on any hardware raid. Am i correct here? Also, does anyone know how to choose split threshold (-s 2048) correctly ? Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block: GPT partitions should work, just limit it to one mirrored partition per drive. Please, clarify what you mean here. If only one GPT partition on a drive is mirrored with another GPT partition on another drive, head contention never comes up. There is only one mirror. It does nearly eliminate the usefulness of GPT partitioning. Um... and how can i do that if i have a simple mirror with two drives and want to mirror everything on them? As i understand i will have at least bootable, swap and ufs parttions on those drives, that is 3 partitions at least. If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all three partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change often, and swap does not have to be mirrored. Not that it's easy or convenient, but it's an option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote: If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all three partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change often, and swap does not have to be mirrored. Note that if you do NOT mirror SWAP, then in the event of a disk failure you will most likely crash when the system tries to swap in some data from the failed drive. If you mirror swap then you do not risk a crash due to missing swap data. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
30.01.2013 19:28, Paul Kraus: On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote: If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all three partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change often, and swap does not have to be mirrored. Note that if you do NOT mirror SWAP, then in the event of a disk failure you will most likely crash when the system tries to swap in some data from the failed drive. If you mirror swap then you do not risk a crash due to missing swap data. yes, that's what i wanted to say. Also, not being able to boot if first disk has some error in boot section or just strangly dead is not an option too. However, i was just thinking, if i use gmirror then bios does not know anything about it. I may set both harddisk as boot disk, but if first disk is brain damaged then bios may just stuck trying to boot from it and will not pass boot attempt to the second disk. I don't know, it depends on bios of course. But this seems to be a disadvantage to a software raid. Artem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Software raid VS hardware raid
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: Also, not being able to boot if first disk has some error in boot section or just strangly dead is not an option too. However, i was just thinking, if i use gmirror then bios does not know anything about it. I may set both harddisk as boot disk, but if first disk is brain damaged then bios may just stuck trying to boot from it and will not pass boot attempt to the second disk. I don't know, it depends on bios of course. But this seems to be a disadvantage to a software raid. That's true. The similar situation with hardware RAID is when the controller fails. The metadata is probably specific to that manufacturer and maybe to that model of controller. It's a good idea to get spares, because as Murphy is my witness, in an emergency that controller will not be available in the same town, district, country, or continent. More likely it will have been long discontinued, with no data migration path. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Supported Hardware list update request.
Hello, I would like to know the process to have a new version of hardware product listed in this page: http://bsssd.sourceforge.net/hardware.html#hardware Our TPM is fully compliant with the current driver provided as a module with latest FreeBSD 9.1. Best Regards, Jean-Luc BLANC TPM Application engineer Applications team Secure Microcontrollers Division (SMD) Microcontrollers, Memories Secure microcontrollers (MMS) Group [cid:image001.jpg@01CDFF18.B99414C0]http://www.st.com/internet/com/common/flv.jsp?url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/st-videos/newbrand_film_st_HD.flvwidth=800height=450title=TITLE STMicroelectronics 190 Av Celestin Coq - ZI 13106 ROUSSET cedex FRANCE * +33 4 42 68 84 72 6 +33 4 42 68 87 29 * jean-luc.bl...@st.commailto:jean-luc.bl...@st.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting Problem
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the same drive on the same machine? Not so far. The drive works fine on other systems. You said in your orginal post The bios will not boot from USB stick. I see no reason why you would think your PC would BOOT from any USB attached devices. Since you have another PC that does boot off of usb cd drive, swap hard drives and use that pc to load FreeBSD to the hard drive. This method will work for you. Yes that works now. But starting this weekend it will be about 100 miles away. That no longer will be practical. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Booting Problem
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable option. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the same drive on the same machine? Not so far. The drive works fine on other systems. You said in your orginal post The bios will not boot from USB stick. I see no reason why you would think your PC would BOOT from any USB attached devices. Since you have another PC that does boot off of usb cd drive, swap hard drives and use that pc to load FreeBSD to the hard drive. This method will work for you. Yes that works now. But starting this weekend it will be about 100 miles away. That no longer will be practical. The CD will not be of much help then either. The problem started with the root partition being too small. Just repartition to make sure that does not come up for a while. While you have you hands of the machine you should see if you can figure out if it can do a pixe boot. You should also see if you can arrange for a serial console into the system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?
I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. When doing the 9.1 install, I selected the disk and had to assign the partitions to the various filesystems. AFIK, I did not otherwise modify the filesystems. Does the 9.1 install process trash the boot areas? My gpart setup was: clean up (delete) the original partitions gpart destroy ada3 gpart create -s GPT ada3 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada3 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot ada3 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada3 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -b 1M -s 4G -i 2 -l fbsdroot ada3 # / gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4K -s 2G -i 3 -l fbsdswap ada3 # swap gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 4 -l fbsdvar ada3 # /var gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 5 -l fbsdtmp ada3 # /tmp gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -i 6 -l fbsdusr ada3 # /usr newfs /dev/ada3p2 # / newfs -U -b 4096 -g 8192 -i 1024 /dev/ada3p4# /var newfs -U /dev/ada3p5# /tmp newfs -U /dev/ada3p6 At this point: gpart show -l ada3 = 34 488397101 ada3 GPT (232G) 34 1024 1 gptboot (512k) 1058 6- free - (3.0k) 10648388608 2 fbsdroot (4.0G) 83896724194304 3 fbsdswap (2.0G) 125839764194304 4 fbsdvar (2.0G) 167782804194304 5 fbsdtmp (2.0G) 20972584 467424544 6 fbsdusr (222G) 488397128 7- free - (3.5k) The / /var and /usr partitions seem to have been written properly. Do I simply need to rewrite the boot areas, or is something more fundamental screwed up? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?
Gary Aitken writes: I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. While the it wouldn't boot is catastrophically imprecise, I had what sounds like a similar problem about a month ago. I installed from the 9.0 CD and everything appeared to go correctly. However, on final re-boot the loader couldn't identify the root partition. The solution was to identify the disks using the GPT labels in fstab. Check the archive of questions@ for more details. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. What did it say? When doing the 9.1 install, I selected the disk and had to assign the partitions to the various filesystems. AFIK, I did not otherwise modify the filesystems. Does the 9.1 install process trash the boot areas? My gpart setup was: clean up (delete) the original partitions gpart destroy ada3 These two steps can be replaced with gpart destroy -F ada3 gpart create -s GPT ada3 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr ada3 gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot ada3 gpart bootcode -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada3 I do the bootcode in one step: gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada3 gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -b 1M -s 4G -i 2 -l fbsdroot ada3 # / gpart add -t freebsd-swap -a 4K -s 2G -i 3 -l fbsdswap ada3 # swap gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 4 -l fbsdvar ada3 # /var gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -s 2G -i 5 -l fbsdtmp ada3 # /tmp gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4K -i 6 -l fbsdusr ada3 # /usr It's not necessary to use partition numbers with add, gpart will just use the next one available. Here are my notes: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
