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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2005 15:40:44 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash
Message-ID:  <200506251540.50639.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Hi,
I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 R=
AID=20
controller (in mirror).

The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump)=
=20
but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record wha=
t=20
the dump is because it continually sprays the dump down the screen which=20
makes it unreadable :(

I have seen this on an AMD64 system (I used the same RAID card in it) and g=
ot=20
the same problem. To work around it on that system I installed via the=20
motherboard IDE controller and then moved the disk over to the RAID=20
controller.

It only seems to affect booting the installer - once the system is installe=
d=20
it boots from the RAID card just fine (!)

I just tried booting from floppy and that works (?!) although that method=20
doesn't probe my PS/2 keyboard for some reason :-/

Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the RAID + CD boot problem?

Thanks.

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
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