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Date:      Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:23:46 +0100
From:      Mark Rowlands <fuc952d@tninet.se>
To:        Christopher Weimann <cweimann@k12hq.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booting from Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100
Message-ID:  <20020201212335.0816137B417@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020201134013.A79061@mail.k12us.com>
References:  <20020201134013.A79061@mail.k12us.com>

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On Friday 01 February 2002 7:40 pm, Christopher Weimann wrote:
> I can't seem to convince it to work.
>
> This is the first time I am using raid on a FreeBSD box
> but I was under the impression that things shouldn't really
> be any different.  I created a stripe set/logical drive from
> two 36gb drives.  Booted from CD (4.4) and the install went
> great since the Mylex is supported in the Generic kernel.
> Rebooted and I get "Missing Operating System".
>
> I assumed this was some sort of a bios problem so I tried again
> in a newer box (IBM MPro) and still no joy.  Next I dropped the
> Raids logical drive size down to 1Gig and this time I installed
> the FreeBSD boot manager rather than using "standard".
>
> Now I get the boot menu and the F1 choice is FreeBSD but all
> pressing F1 results in is beeping.
>
> Anyone have any pointers for me?

 set the mylex disk geometry option to 8gb
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