Re: [Pcbsd-developer] PC-BSD 1.3 test2 issues

[Andrei K. <an...@bs...>]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 1:08 pm, Andrei Kolu wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 1.3 test2 Installer shows error message about about md4 disk creation- that
> means /var partition is not created and all errors are sent to /dev/null.
>
> We need one free terminal console (for example: ALT+F3) for logging error
> messages for debugging purposes.
>
> And I still want "Handsfree" function in installer badly- this is not hard
> to implement- just have to log all options selected in installer to file
> and after installation is finished there should be option for saving this
> file to some removable disk on even into PC-BSD base system for later use.
>
> Good news is that Installer kernel recognise SMP system by default and use
> both processors.
>
I tried to install pc-bsd on striped volume instead of mirrored and it just 
won't recognize it. 

# kldload geom_stripe
# gstripe label -v st0 /dev/ad0 /dev/ad1
# bsdlabel -wB /dev/stripe/st0
# mount /dev/stripe/st0a /mnt

and when I enter partition manager it still shows two different hard drives 
instead of stripe volume. Strange that if I select available drives couple of 
times then they were added to next windows couple of times and it says: error 
you don't have enough space- but I generated two 4444MB virtual drives in 
Qemu.

I was unable to start installer in SMP mode- maybe it loads too long- but with 
single mode it works really fast.

When making mirror there should be SWAP space on every drive or else losing 
one drive renders other system unusable without swap space.

CCD is too old to include anyway- replace it with RAID0 (stripe) instead.


Andrei