On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:32:42 +0100, Peter van Oord van der Vlies wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have setup 2 HP DL360 G5 with serial ATA drives.
>
> Both are setup with openbsd 4.0 and disk mirror by Raidframe.
> Now almost everytime when i reboot the machine(they are not in
> production yet) i get directly after the reboot command a panic.
>
> Now i was reading on the internet that is not recommended to have swap
> on a mirror or the same mirror as the rest.
> So after the reboot now the system always comes up with a dirty paritity
> and starts building again(takes a while to complete).
> Also i see the message savecore: no dump device configured. Why is that ?
>
> The question: Is this normal when swap is not outside the raid set or on
> the same raid set as the rest ?

Peter,

A little information on your configuration will go a long way towards
helping you.

It appears, from your description, that you are getting a repeatable
panic. Nobody is going to be able to help you with that, unless you are
able to provide minimal information: what the panic is, what the backtrace
shows, etc.

I can answer the dump device question, as I had already investigated it.
You can see the details by reading misc@ archives. In brief: When you
have root on RAID, you cannot dump core. It doesn't matter if
your swap is in a RAID set or on a standard device.

As to your continuing problem with "dirty" areas after reboot, it could
certainly be the panic. If you are able to shutdown and boot without
panic, but still going through parity rebuilding, then you have a
configuration problem.

Post the output of disklabel for all disks (real and RAIDFrame), and the
output for fdisk for each disk if your architecture uses MBR.

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