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Mark, I also added SMP support yesterday for this Dell 2500 since it has dual processors... Adding RAID and SMP support is something that you need a monowall build environment for. I'll see if I can document the process... Paul -----Original Message----- From: Mark Wass [mailto:mark dot wass at gmail dot com] Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:26 AM To: Paul Taylor Cc: Chris Buechler; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Running Monowall on a Dell server w/ RAID You should make this change available to every one or at least get it added to the standard monowall install. If you can't do that, a HOW-TO in the monowall wiki would be a great idea :-) Paul Taylor wrote: >After googling a bit and experimenting with MAKEDEV (found success with >MAKEDEV aac0 and MAKEDEV aacd0), I've successfully added the aacd devices to >our Monowall image and have successfully booted up with the Dell 2500 on >RAID. > >So, all it took was recompiling the kernel with the aac option and adding >the appropriate dev files. > >Thanks, >Paul > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Taylor [mailto:PaulTaylor at winn dash dixie dot com] >Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:37 AM >To: Chris Buechler >Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Running Monowall on a Dell server w/ RAID > > >I decided to modify my config.inc file to run the mount command that >Monowall attempts to execute, and output the result: > >mount -r /dev/aacd0 /cf > >It returns this: > >mount: /dev/aacd0a : No such file or directory > >So, it looks like perhaps all I need is to add a /dev/aacd0a ??? I'm unclear >on how to do this, since I don't have that particular file on my development >machine. Is this just a placeholder? Can I just copy another file and >rename it? > >Thanks, >Paul > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Taylor [mailto:PaulTaylor at winn dash dixie dot com] >Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:33 PM >To: Chris Buechler >Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: RE: [m0n0wall] Running Monowall on a Dell server w/ RAID > > >Thanks to everyone who has replied... We are trying to avoid compact flash >and cdrom/disk... (We expect this to be a firewall with constant changes to >the config as it's for a development environment.) > >So far, we've compiled a new image with the aac driver in the kernel. It >seems to see the Raid array (aacd0), but fails to find the config.xml file. >It's failing near the beginning of the config.inc file... > >Anyone have any more insight on how I can make this work (using RAID)? I'm >not familiar with FreeBSD in general, having really only used it in Monowall >and on my Monowall development system. > >In looking at the config.inc file, for each device it is attempting to mount >/dev/{device}a... like, /dev/hda, etc. Is there an aacd0a, or is it a >different device name? > >Thanks, >Paul > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Buechler [mailto:cbuechler at gmail dot com] >Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 6:20 PM >Cc: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Running Monowall on a Dell server w/ RAID > >On 3/27/06, Paul Taylor <PaulTaylor at winn dash dixie dot com> wrote: > > >>I'm attempting to install Monowall on a Dell 2500 server with a Perc RAID >>controller (it is what we have available). It uses the ServerWorks >> >> >chipset, > > >>if that matters. I booted with Ubuntu and performed the gunzip/dd command >>(per the documentation) to write the OS to the sda device. Upon >> >> >rebooting, > > >>it boots FreeBSD successfully all the way to the message "Mounting root >> >> >from > > >>ufs:/dev/md0c", where it gets a fatal error saying that it can not find a >>configuration file. >> >>Any ideas how to get Monowall to work successfully in this environment? >>Does anyone else use a SCSI system? >> >> >> > > >SCSI, yeah, but there are no RAID drivers in the m0n0wall kernel so >RAID isn't supported. Those PERC cards work great with FreeBSD >though, my 2550's with the RAID keys use the aac (Adaptec RAID) >driver. > >-Chris > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch >For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch |