From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 19:09:50 2009 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 DF14D10656C5 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91DEC8FC19 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LNXbB-00058k-7e for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:49 +0000 Received: from pool-141-156-171-233.esr.east.verizon.net ([141.156.171.233]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:49 +0000 Received: from nightrecon by pool-141-156-171-233.esr.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:10:25 -0500 Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-141-156-171-233.esr.east.verizon.net Sender: news Subject: Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nightrecon@verizon.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:09:53 -0000 Jeremy Gagliardi wrote: > I'm having trouble with HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. > > I have 2 disks on it in a mirror configuration. Everything seems to go > swimmingly through the FreeBSD installation, up until the final reboot... > > 1) Boot from Disc 1. > 2) At the "Welcome to FreeBSD" screen, choose option "6" > ok load hptiop > ok boot > 3) It recognizes my mirror as device "da0" and I proceed with the > installation. > 4) I install all distros, except X.org & Ports. > 5) At the tail end, before rebooting, I enter a shell and vi > /boot/loader.conf. I add the line: > hptiop_load="YES" > 6) REBOOT. > > The following happens... > a) RocketRAID card beeps > b) I see the BIOS splash screen > c) I see RocketRAID splash screen > d) It resets and repeats everything above. > > I never even get a boot loader menu to try troubleshooting. > > What did I miss? Why can't this thing boot? Unfortunately, HighPoint's > User Manual was last updated in 2007, when FreeBSD 6.1 was the latest. > Since then, the hptiop driver was added to 7.x, and that's what I'm trying > to use. To be clear, the problem isn't that I can get FreeBSD to mount > and recognize it, I can. The problem is being able to boot from it. > [snip] In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of the onboard controller. Also ensure that in the Highpoint card BIOS INT 13 is "on", should be this way by default. -Mike