Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:05:37 -0800 From: Brian <bri@brianwhalen.net> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot Message-ID: <475034D1.9030706@brianwhalen.net> In-Reply-To: <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se> References: <474FDC43.2060407@intersonic.se> <47502999.4000708@intersonic.se> <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se>
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Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >>> 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do "automatic" >>> partitions and slices, then stops at "F1 FreeBSD" prompt and beeps. >>> Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from. >>> >>> System is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to >>> enter drive geometry manually but have no idea where to get that >>> info from, perhaps somebody knows where to look? >> >> i386 does not boot either - same >> A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386. > > Right. If I create two slices, one 50G and one 1.3T and use the first > for /, /var etc. then the system will boot. > > I would assume from the above that I could perhaps use some other > utility to create a big single slice. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Is the 2TB max implied here still true? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-August/095504.html brian
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