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Subject: New amr driver (perc2/sc RAID): unable to create partition 'slices' in /dev during installation 
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>Number:         17196
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       New amr driver (perc2/sc RAID): unable to create partition 'slices' in /dev during installation
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    msmith
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar  4 18:20:00 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Tue Apr 4 20:31:25 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Tue Apr  4 20:33:20 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Ben Collins-Sussman
>Release:        4.0 release candidate 2
>Organization:
Inso Corporation
>Environment:
unable to install
>Description:
Trying to install the 02/14/00 release candidate of FreeBSD 4.0
on a Dell Poweredge 1300 server with a Perc2/SC RAID controller.

Unlike FreeBSD 3.X, the installation boot kernel actually recognized the controller with the new 'amr' driver, and the BSD fdisk program correctly recognized the large 50GB 'virtual' disk.  Told fdisk to create a single large 50GB partition;  used disklabel to divide into 3 slices.

The problem happened when the install process actually tried to *write* the partition & disklabel information;  "error, device /dev/amrXXXX not configured."  When I switched to tty2, the real error was "MakeDev:  unable to lookup user 'root', unable to lookup group 'operator'".

When I opened the emergency shell, I noticed that /etc was completely empty except for pccard.conf (?).  Perhaps this is why MakeDev couldn't configure the /dev/amrXXXX devices?  
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD 4.0 onto a system with nothing but a RAID array attached to a Perc2/SC controller.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->msmith  
Responsible-Changed-By: cpiazza 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Mar 4 23:02:43 PST 2000 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Mike wrote the amr driver 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: msmith 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 4 20:31:25 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Booting from AMI MegaRAID controllers is not supported in 4.0 
>Unformatted:
