Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:44:17 +0200 From: Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> To: indiana99@inbox.lv, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: RAID10 doen't boot Message-ID: <cf9b1ee01003020044i2756f747ra1001dac2d9ce811@mail.gmail.com>
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>Hi, >I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help me out! >I have a box with a MB ASUS P5WDG2-WS Pro with two built-in SATA II RAID controllers >(Intel ICH7R and Marvell 88SE614x). >I installed 4 HDD WD WD5002ABYS (500GB each) on the 4 SATA ports of the Intel >ICH7R and using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager I created a RAID10 (Strip 14KB, Size >931.5GB, Status Normal, Bootable Yes) out of these 4 HDD. >Then in the BIOS I set the IDE Configuration to Configure SATA As [RAID], OnBoard >Serial-ATA BOOTROM [Enabled] and disable the Marvell SATA controller, for I use only >the Intel ICH7R. >Then I successfully installed FreeBSD 7.1 on the RAID partition, ar0. > >The installation completed successfully but the system persistently didn't boot and gave this >error message: > >F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad >(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel boot: No /boot/kernel/kernel > >Thanks a lot, >Alex Hello, I know that this probably doesn't help much, but I do recall reading in several different places that support for Intel firmware raid in both FreeBSD and Linux is very shaky and limited a best. Is there any particular reason you want to use it instead of using ZFS or gmirror/gstripe/graid5? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov
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