1TB issue

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 20:52:43 -0400, Tuc at Beach House wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 19:53:24 -0400, Tuc at Beach House wrote:
> > > > >         What can I do to get this configured properly? It seems that if I
> > > > > bring it down to RAID-1+0, it configures up fine (Not sure what the
> > > > > geometry shows as, sorry).
> > > > 
> > > > See another recent message on this list from Brooks Davis.  It sounds like
> > > > sysinstall has issues with large arrays in -current, but fdisk works okay.
> > > > 
> > > > Try doing your installation on a smaller fdisk partition within sysinstall,
> > > > and then once you're installed, use the command line fdisk to create
> > > > another slice and use up the rest of the array.
> > > > 
> > > 	This is a 2nd drive, so its ok. I already have 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4 
> > > installed on /dev/da1.
> > > 
> > > 	If I just do :
> > > 
> > > vjofn2# fdisk da0
> > > ******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
> > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> > > cylinders=135154 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
> > > 
> > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> > > cylinders=135154 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
> > > 
> > > Media sector size is 512
> > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> > > Information from DOS bootblock is:
> > > The data for partition 1 is:
> > > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
> > >     start 63, size 2171248947 (1060180 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> > >         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> > >         end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> > > The data for partition 2 is:
> > > <UNUSED>
> > > The data for partition 3 is:
> > > <UNUSED>
> > > The data for partition 4 is:
> > > <UNUSED>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 	So what config to command line fdisk should I use?
> > > 
> > > p	1	0	0	0
> > > p	1	165	1	2171249010
> > > 
> > 
> > It looks like you may already have a partition there...it looks like it's
> > about 1TB.
> > 
> > Do things work when you attempt to disklabel it?
> > 
> Fatal Error: Partitions are larger than actual chunk?? - PRESS ANY KEY TO QUIT
> 
> 
> 	Won't let me go any farther.

You might try "dangerously dedicated" mode, assuming it works.  First, blow
away your fdisk table:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m count=1

Then try generating a label automatically:

bsdlabel -wr da0 auto

Then edit the label, and fix up the partition type, etc.:

bsdlabel -e da0

If that works you should be able to newfs da0a, or whatever letter
partition you setup in the previous step.

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken at kdm.org