Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:49:06 -0400 From: <lists@brenius.com> To: "Jean-Mark" <jeanmark@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mylex RAID to Asus Symbios SCSI Card Message-ID: <000501c1f6b0$44e72300$7b01a8c0@afi> References: <3CD825E6.19DCB160@dupx.freeserve.co.uk>
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Jean-Mark wrote: > Some questions im surprised noone else asked yet > > 1. Are you getting the fbsd booloader selection (F1, F2 and so on)? I am new to this part of FreeBSD, so I appreciate your help and patience :). I think so, I have been able to do boot -c and boot -s from the boot> menu. > 2. if you are, can you hit spacebar then type boot -c to load the > module configuration screen before going into the full boot. If you get > this far you need to select /deselect drivers appropriately for the > cards being swapped Got into boot -c just now. How would I go about selecting/deselecting the appropriate drivers? > 3. once you've done that there are probably some config files that > need hand editing, but Ive never used RAID just ordinary SCSI. > /etc/fstab should still look the same if it's still possible to keep the > drives as they are without any kind of reinstall, dont know about > anything, im just trying to throw up suggestions Thanks, I appreciate it. Still stuck at the step above, so I`ll hold off on this part for now. > Also dont know if you'll be able to get this far from a normal boot or > if you'll need the fixit floppy or something like that just to get into > files onthe hdd to edit them Got a link for the fixit floppy and how to use it? Lets say I somehow get the drivers setup properly, would I still need the fixit route? Regards, D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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