From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 31 05:16:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C43D16A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:16:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail14a.sanjose14-verio.com (mail14a.sanjose14-verio.com [128.121.143.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDF6943D2D for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:15:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from support@solvnet.net) Received: from www.solvnet.net (128.121.210.113)3-083236513 for ; Wed, 31 Dec 2003 08:15:14 -0500 (EST) From: support@solvnet.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:14:58 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3FF27772.24016.191B1C@localhost> Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.11) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Loop-Detect: 1 Subject: AccelRAID 250 won't boot FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:16:01 -0000 Hello, I have an AccelRAID 250 (mylex DAC960PTL) I had 4.9 release running a couple of weeks ago but the install must have been a lucky alignment of the planets. Currently, on new install I get F1 hang on the boot manager or just hangs without. The problem arose when I did a new install of 5.1 release over the 4.9 and the install wouldn't boot. I then reinstalled 4.9 and that wouldn't boot. I went back and forth a couple times to no avail. I then low level fomatted the drives and reinitialized them but again to no avail. I read the suggestion to install linux which changes the drive geometry (which it did) but still no luck. I've tried setting the active partition during the install by letting the install commit to fdisk and succesfully writing to fdisk manually and on all occassions a return to fdisk shows the partition not active. I feel like the fdisk is writing to a ramdisk and not commiting it to the boot sector on exit as all the rest of the install appears to be on the drive. (on reinstall the prompt comes up "commiting to existing root...."). Anyone have any knowledge on this? I've additionally tried the live CD and the mini cd with the same results. Are there any bootable floppy sets to bring up a generic kernal that doesn't bring up the install routine? Is there a method to correct the boot loader manually? Thanks, Dan