From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 27 22:05:36 2004 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 2235A16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 22:05:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m01.ca.astound.net (m01.ca.astound.net [64.85.239.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069ED43D31 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 22:05:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rchopra@cal.berkeley.edu) Received: from [64.85.251.113] (astound-64-85-251-113.ca.astound.net [64.85.251.113]) by m01.ca.astound.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4S524hT024633 for ; Thu, 27 May 2004 22:02:05 -0700 Message-ID: <40B6C833.60102@cal.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 22:03:47 -0700 From: Rishi Chopra User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: RAID5 Failure And Booting 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: Fri, 28 May 2004 05:05:36 -0000 My RAID-5 array seems to have died this weekend. After coming back from a motorcycle-riding class, I noticed my internet connection was down. I hooked up a monitor and a keyboard to my FreeBSD box, and noticed that the OS was no longer running, that the computer had rebooted, and that the BIOS message was "Insert Bootable Media Into Appropriate Drive". I'm unfamiliar with this particular message; can anyone explain what might have happened? My understanding is that, since the computer is running a RAID5 array (Adaptec 2400A card + (4) WD2000JB drives) even if one drive fails, the computer will continue running. I replaced one of the drives, which seemed to be clicking on and off, but the computer still is not booting to the OS. I have a pair of FreeBSD diskettes at my disposal: is there a way to boot from this diskettes, assuming the array is still intact? -- . _ . |\_|/__/| .--------------------------------------. / / \/ \ \ | Rishi Chopra | /__| oo |__ \ | http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra | |/_ \_/\_/ _\ | `--------------------------------------' | | (____) | || \ \/\___/\__/ // \ (_/ || | || | ||\ \ . //_/ \______// __|| __|| (____(____)