Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:19:03 -0500 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: Diego Arias <dak.col@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode Message-ID: <AANLkTimq8kQmw1uwP0xp2xLdYzs%2BYDn1onj7MBT3mUOR@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTino16T4-YzURRufhydx1zikoL-gGyN=P0znTp5h@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTi=p8SCOm5WQGN%2B_MBYvJ3qQyM8ukp7SLmFNc74q@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=U%2Bnebp0jaeENE2NDXTUNC=X-dBe25sRX8hf95@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=ULFbxiFNFKU0XJx9chXBZWzKW0yL8iFFbPM%2BL@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTino16T4-YzURRufhydx1zikoL-gGyN=P0znTp5h@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Diego Arias <dak.col@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Diego Arias <dak.col@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould >> > <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I purchased an HP Pavilion p6510f. =A0I cannot boot either FreeBSD 8.= 1 >> >> (amd64) or OpenSUSE 11.3 Gnome Live CD unless I change the hard drive >> >> mode from RAID to IDE. =A0Unfortunately, that damages my Windows 7 >> >> installation. =A0(The computer is currently being restored to factory >> >> state.) >> >> >> >> Is there an option I can pass to the kernel to bootup the FreeBSD >> >> installation DVD while the hard drive is in RAID mode? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Andrew >> > >> > Do you have a RAID? >> > >> >> I don't have a RAID that I know of. =A0The computer came with Windows 7 >> Home Premium 64 and the hard drive set to RAID in the BIOS. >> >> The computer contains only one hard drive and one DVD writer. =A0The >> hard drive has 3 partitions: =A0a small partition, the OS partition and >> the recovery partition. > > Do you try restoring with IDE instead of RAID? > I don't think that will work. I've read online that you have to reinstall Windows to change modes. Restoring maintains the old Windows configuration. I've been told that *Ubuntu live CD's can boot on computers with RAID mode on. That's why I was hoping that there was a kernel option I could use at bootup. Andrew
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