From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 18:45:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 693871065672 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:45:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 495568FC08 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:45:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9349 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2011 18:45:13 -0000 Received: from 24-113-112-30.wavecable.com (HELO [192.168.2.2]) (tomdean@[24.113.112.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2011 18:45:13 -0000 From: "Thomas D. Dean" To: FreeBSD - Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Home Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 11:45:13 -0700 Message-ID: <1311101113.2262.28.camel@asus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tomdean@speakeasy.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 18:45:14 -0000 I booted the DVD to Fixit and used fdisk. The output is below. It looks like, if I want to use ataraid, I install to ad4 and leave ad6 alone. Correct? I think I will try ataraid and see what happens. To use gmirror, I do the same, correct? tomdean Fixit# fdisk ad4 ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1240341 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1240341 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 2048, size 407552 (199 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 32/ sector 33; end: cyl 25/ head 126/ sector 37 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 409600, size 2461452288 (1201881 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 25/ head 126/ sector 38; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 2461861888, size 38447104 (18773 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 12 (0x0c),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA)) start 2500308992, size 206848 (101 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 Fixit# disklabel ad4s1 disklabel: /dev/ad4s1: no valid label found Fixit# fdisk ad6 ******* Working on device /dev/ad6 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1240341 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1240341 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 1250263665 (610480 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 276/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Fixit# fdisk ar0 ******* Working on device /dev/ar0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=155650 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=155650 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 2048, size 407552 (199 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 32/ sector 33; end: cyl 25/ head 126/ sector 37 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 409600, size 2461452288 (1201881 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 25/ head 126/ sector 38; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 7 (0x07),(NTFS, OS/2 HPFS, QNX-2 (16 bit) or Advanced UNIX) start 2461861888, size 38447104 (18773 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 12 (0x0c),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA)) start 2500308992, size 206848 (101 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63