From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 11 22: 5:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 339D115737 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 22:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id PAA18199; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 15:00:49 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA12397; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:47:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:43:59 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Jaime Kikpole Cc: Jaye Mathisen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from RAID5 array? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > > It seems to me as though the Adaptec is blocking any handover of the boot > > process to the DPT > > Any suggestions on how to prevent this from happening? Only things you've probably already tried, and haven't helped ... like checking the machines BIOS boot choice, and whether the DPT's configuration has any boot options. It occurs to me that IBM may have wired down the boot sequence in such a way that an Adaptec would work, but anything else won't be found. An alternative, though not overly attractive, option is to look at whether you can concoct a boot floppy with the kernel you want, wired to find everything on the DPT's volumes. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message