From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 13:23:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tninet.se (sheridan.tninet.se [195.100.94.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0816137B417 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from there (bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se [62.5.36.29]) by sheridan.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 413452.598610.1012.0s5981485sheridan ; Fri, 01 Feb 2002 22:23:30 +0100 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: Christopher Weimann , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 22:23:46 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <20020201134013.A79061@mail.k12us.com> In-Reply-To: <20020201134013.A79061@mail.k12us.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020201212335.0816137B417@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 t > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- I feel sorry for your brain... all alone in that great big head... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message