From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 1 15:19: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.k12us.com (mail.k12us.com [65.112.222.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C2F637B402 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:18:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 88631 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Feb 2002 23:18:52 -0000 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 18:18:52 -0500 From: Christopher Weimann To: Mark Rowlands Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from Mylex eXtremeRAID 1100 Message-ID: <20020201181852.A71244@mail.k12us.com> References: <20020201134013.A79061@mail.k12us.com> <20020201212335.0816137B417@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020201212335.0816137B417@hub.freebsd.org>; from fuc952d@tninet.se on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:23:46PM +0100 X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.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 Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:23:46PM +0100, Mark Rowlands 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 > If you mean in the bios options (alt-m I think) it already is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message