From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 15:19:05 2010 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 2422C1065678 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:19:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrewlylegould@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f182.google.com (mail-gx0-f182.google.com [209.85.161.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCE68FC20 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:19:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so200441gxk.13 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:19:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7F5bLtQM3zMKR2YNdx9tRS579yujczuGC+vxCrl0Q6E=; b=WwIDAO+C0+wc3MKrqRggRqC9erPmH55QpA7v8k4eGAN5AlczNdkb8HtiTp4BNCwaSs L9uh78YiTZ1k2GJ54aoz9wf98bBBoo/bsJZQc2S3PyTpgQD5QdfPZW2juzV3DKe09EJI 4t++Ane24wj/zlghierHFHR0jYkNktwlcJLAU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=k4GD4RqDq4R49eykyzuf85HM+k3kLgWXm2du2vQ/+YWOH36XPrNtBCm25rR1PcuCMT 93VoMA1BPffbk/dwxFhzp3XB8YiAad1wg5Tu/EuFOULUjbJu4QT9X/OBlxyiQO6B9VMp wxIwrrDRVsPccnQcdyZC3Dh5BmVZw1HMMTV6U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.151.17.31 with SMTP id u31mr1288818ybi.194.1280416744051; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:19:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.15.73 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:19:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:19:03 -0500 Message-ID: From: Andrew Gould To: Diego Arias , FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: booting install DVD while hard drive is in RAID mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:19:05 -0000 On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Diego Arias wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Gould > wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Diego Arias wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Andrew Gould >> > >> > 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