Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 16:47:58 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Ivan_Debn=E1r?= <debnar@o-c.sk> To: <janb@cs.utep.edu> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>, <sos@freebsd.dk> Subject: RE: ATA RAID - sysinstall solution Message-ID: <NEBBLGGDNJOMBLNHDFHFOEPNCJAA.debnar@o-c.sk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10011080841480.20459-100000@gecko>
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I have the same problem on 4, and I have a response from Soren: --- start --- Ugh, booting from the HPT RAID is not supported as is. This is due to the HPT using sector #9 for the RAID config stuff, this is not compatible with our bootcode/loader as in some circumstances it would happily overwrite this config info, trashing the RAID in the process. Therefore the code uses an offset of 10 into the physical disks. However if you always use an fdisk partition table, and newer uses the first 10 sectors on the disk, you could make the offset 0 in the driver, and have booting work that way, or buy a promise :) I'm not sure I've used the rigth thing as default here, but at least this was POLA seen with my dangerously dedicated eyes... --- end --- This is bad, but I hope we will help Soren to sort thing out on how to get to do it. We will keep in touch. Ivan -----Original Message----- From: janb@cs.utep.edu [mailto:janb@cs.utep.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:44 PM To: Ivan Debnár Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; sos@freebsd.dk Subject: Re: ATA RAID - sysinstall solution OK, i tested this. Sysinstall works fine now, and the system installs OK from the SNAP 5 ftp server. ON reboot, however, the computer thing refuses to boot of the RAID device. After the BIOS message "verifying DMI......"(or similar) the system hangs. Does anybody know why this could be? jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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