Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 18:47:03 -0700 From: Tom Snell <gracchus@getnet.net> To: Jeff Leary <quixoticsycophant@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD-4.7 onto bootable HPT372 RAID Message-ID: <3E1E2617.2030207@getnet.net> References: <20030109214746.71041.qmail@web13105.mail.yahoo.com>
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IIRC, the HPT372 is listed in supported hardware, but as an ATA controller only, not as a RAID controller....i.e., the kernel does not support the RAID capabilities of the chipset. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here (and in this case, I hope I'm wrong).... Jeff Leary wrote: >I currently have two drives doing RAID-0 on a HPT372 controller; these >are the only two hard drives in my machine. > >I am booting Win2k and Linux (gentoo-1.2) directly off the RAID. > >The partition table looks like > >part1: ext3 (a primary partition), Linux boot partition >part2: ntfs (a primary partition), Win2k boot partition >part3: (extended partition) > part5: ntfs, Win2k data -+ > part6: ext3, Linux data |-- part5,part6,part7 inside part3 > part7: Linux swap -+ > >Using the existing setup, how can I install FreeBSD where Linux now >lives? > >The Win2k install can't be touched and I refuse to install another >hard drive just for booting. > >I have tried the 4.7 install CD without success. > >sysinstall begins by automatically trying to load aac.ko which gives >an error. This is the wrong module, identified as the Adaptec FSA >RAID, Dell PERC2/PERC3 module. > >But sysinstall does recognize ar0 with the correct number of >cylinders. However no slices show up in the "FreeBSD Disklabel >Editor" part of sysinstall no matter what I try. > >The HPT372 is listed in supported hardware. Is it part of FreeBSD or >is HPT support only through a proprietary module? If the latter then >I'm going to have to somehow create a floppy or CD image with that >module on it and then load the module at the bootloader. Yikes. > >Jeff > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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