It looks like the problems I experienced below were due to creating a vinum volume starting at offset 0, instead of offset 16, thus overwriting the bootloader. I realise this is documented - apologies for the noise.
Thanks, David Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, David Adam wrote: > I have a reasonably old (P3-class) Intel SR1200 which has three SCSI > drives installed. I've installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE over NFS onto the > first drive. > > While configuring gvinum, I issued the following commands: > > --- > blade# gvinum > gvinum -> list > 1 drive: > D r0 State: down /dev/da0s1b A: 32677/32677 MB > (100%) > > 0 volumes: > > 0 plexes: > > 0 subdisks: > gvinum -> rm r0 > --- > > At this point, my SSH session to the machine stopped responding and > eventually timed out. I presume it rebooted; I didn't get to the console > in time, and this was all that was displayed: > > int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00010246 eip=0000275c > eax=00091300 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 > esi=00000004 edi=00003dd4 ebp=00000000 esp=000903fc > cs=002b ds=0033 es=0033 fs=0033 gs=0033 ss=0033 > cs:eip=f0 49 08 28 00 82 07 28-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > ss:esp=29 20 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > BTX halted > > This error persists on reboot. I have tried using sysinstall to rewrite > the MBR (with /boot/mbr-style booting). > > The partition table looks like this: > --- > blade# bsdlabel da0s1 > # /dev/da0s1: > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > a: 4194304 66924544 4.2BSD 0 0 0 > b: 66924544 0 vinum > c: 71119692 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't > edit > --- > > Some web searching of the various values has turned up no information > that I can understand; where should I go from here? > > The FreeBSD installer disc1 boots ok on this machine, as did the > 7.0-RELEASE install until the gvinum crash. Getting a dmesg out of the > machine is proving to be a little challenging but if required I will > provide this tomorrow. > > Please keep me in the reply chain; I am not subscribed to -questions. > > Thanks, > > David Adam > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"