Trap 3e on A1000, failing RAID Manager

2007-12-25 10:54:00

Although multiple people emailed me saying they were having basically

the same problem I am, although not usually with an A1000, no one seems

to have found a solution. I refer to bug 4166678 below, and it looks

like that bug still hasn't been fixed. So, I don't recommend trying to

boot off of an A1000, because apparently it will give the Trap 3e on PCI

cards right now.

I still have not figured out why I cannot fsck volumes, either.

Luke Kanies wrote:

>

> I have a 420 connected to an A1000 through a Sun differential SCSI

> card. I was able to install the OS, install RAID Manager, configure the

> volume on the A1000, and then install the OS on the A1000 with no

> problems at all.

>

> However, when I try to boot from the A1000, I have numerous problems.

> First and foremost, when the machine is initially coming up (just after

> the prom headers are displayed) the boot stops with a 'Trap 3e' and the

> machine goes to an ok prompt. I can type 'boot' from there and the

> system comes up fine. This is most certainly not acceptable for a

> production system, though.

>

> Sunsolve lists bugs 4166678 and 1251360 which relate to this problem,

> but they are more than a year old, and I am hoping that there are

> resolutions by now, although the bug reports only list workarounds

> (i.e., type 'boot' again; thanks).

>

> I did find another bug report on sunsolve which claimed that the problem

> stemmed from a bad superblock, and that fsck'ing with a different

> superblock would fix the problem. That didn't work for me though--any

> attempts at fsck'ing failed with 'CANNOT SEEK: BLK 5020768' errors. I

> could still mount the volume just fine though.

>

> That is the worst problem that I am having, but I am also having

> problems with RAID manager when booting from the A1000--everything works

> largely fine until I install the RAID Manager, but when I install the RM

> and reboot, the system invariably fails to come up, usually complaining

> that c1t5d0s0 (the boot slice on the A1000 volume) is not this fstype

> and then mounting it read-only. Is there something special about RAID

> Manager that I need to know? I am just doing a vanilla install of 6.1.1

> update 2. All of the listed required patches are applied to my system,

> and I am running on 2.6. I don't require RAID Manager on the system,

> because once I get the system installed I won't be doing any volume

> manipulations (hopefully), but it would certainly be better to have it.

> I haven't used RAID Manager before, though, so I don't know the

> pertinent incantations.


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