From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 19:15:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A96106566C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomdean@speakeasy.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC728FC08 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:15:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 22480 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2011 19:15:04 -0000 Received: from 24-113-112-30.wavecable.com (HELO [192.168.2.2]) (tomdean@[24.113.112.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2011 19:15:04 -0000 From: "Thomas D. Dean" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" In-Reply-To: <9D63F24F-6A44-4BF5-8DB9-969CDE8236AB@mac.com> References: <1311099631.2262.20.camel@asus> <1311100273.2262.22.camel@asus> <9D63F24F-6A44-4BF5-8DB9-969CDE8236AB@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: Home Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:15:03 -0700 Message-ID: <1311102903.2262.37.camel@asus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tomdean@speakeasy.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:15:05 -0000 On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:52 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: I discovered how to get to BIOS on the laptop. very early in the power process brings up a menu. F10 gets in to BIOS. One item, OROM UI was disabled. Enabling this flashes a menu for 2 sec on boot that allows to get into the raid ROM for setup. I see the ability to create/delete raid volume and reset to non-raid. The disk/volume information is ID Name Level Strip Size Status Bootable 0 RAID-0 RAID0(Stripe) 32KB 1.1TB Normal Yes Physical Port Device Model Serial Size Type/Statue(Vol ID) 0 Toshiba MK6461GS 61ABD08TB 596.1GB Member Disk(0) 1 Toshiba MK6461GS 61ABD08SB 596.1GB Member Disk(0) I still do not understand which disk to install to, ad4, ad6, or, ar0? See my earlier message containing the output of fdisk. tomdean