Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:27:15 -0500 From: "Steve Bertrand" <steve@ibctech.ca> To: "'Steve Bertrand'" <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ICH6-R Message-ID: <20051116192723.8298743D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051116185820.C4F0B43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Steve Bertrand > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:58 PM > To: 'Chuck Swiger' > Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' > Subject: RE: ICH6-R > > > > > - During install (this time it's 6.0-RELEASE as of Nov. 3), > > I have 3 > > > selections to select from when FDISKing etc: ad4, ad6 and ar0. > > > > > > - I select ad0 to configure as this is the bootable RAID > volume, and > > ^^^ ...? > > > everything installs perfectly fine. I then proceed to > > reboot the box, > > > and a blinking cursor appears in the top-left side of the > > screen, as > > > if BSD wants to boot, but nothing ever happens. > > > > If you've configured or enabled a RAID setup in the BIOS, then ar0 > > ought to be the device you should use. > > Yes, I have RAID-1 configured in the BIOS for SATA drives. My > other servers (using either Promise cards, or software RAID > on IDE) are all ar0, so I figured this would be right/ > > > If you are trying to install to a drive in normal, non-RAID > mode, then > > ad0 (if you have it) would be the choice. If you've got static ATA > > numbering enabled in the kernel and you've got no parallel > ATA devices > > attached, only SATA, then > > ad4 might be right. > > All drives are SATA, not PATA. I have tried to boot off of > ad4, and ad6 respectively to no avail. I'm going to try one > more install disabling RAID and popping out one of the 2 SATA > drives in the system to see if that will work, although I'm > certain I've tried that before. Ok, I've made it a little farther now. I booted off the CD and went straight to the loader prompt. I then unloaded the CD's kernel, and did: # load disk1s1a:/boot/kernel/kernel # boot It then dropped me into the mountroot> prompt, in which I typed: # ufs:ad4s1a ...and up it came. So, I can get the machine running, but only if I manually load the proper kernel, then manually specify the root device. I verified that /etc/fstab shows the proper file systems to be mounted. Apparently, either this is caused by the PC not actually pointing to the boot device I tell it to in BIOS, or no remnants of FBSD are being found on the disk. At least now I know that it *can* work, I just have to figure out how to get it to come up itself ;) Steve >
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