From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 14:55:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C1E1065670 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:55:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zflyer@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30EAF8FC18 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:55:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zflyer@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so537571wxd.7 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:55:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=SznvInxgNiYoq1g7Jd7kbx+LN5o5eebax76GiB+nrEA=; b=WNoqVhHPX5vG5FST8kTohb/e9aDCrRPXMasw9f72+Q9IGeloVwK+iF3Sgmg2DjZgwctFeBR4vl8wWK8T8Gpa0eoeATpaDSElqDzaIiYlI2Gbo4dTqu4Jc9Megvb9KL9RbrQ5uDxQ+7wwtSvZVVw8hrB0YLTVyZ1sZRXbqizLiIc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fgxXa+tmm42c31cqFuPrYQU57oU6VHgapdIC3npx7OoWZsd34EjUcH8bXmjOnb+Ogs5rNKuw73VHuJC/YK8md/c/eufEBMsGNMa5f/3tb0M8Br+W2qKQlC90eearH69v8figgqk/RiQndSy9yOPiHAHgeGImdeNH+VDf6OILscc= Received: by 10.100.13.5 with SMTP id 5mr2397070anm.110.1205937078874; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.31.20 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6293ba970803190731y2ec9eca5mc5c62c52e67dd1ea@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:31:18 -0400 From: Walker To: "FreeBSD Questions" , dkelly@hiwaay.net In-Reply-To: <76C6FE72-043C-4EFB-8598-98BB73E11345@hiwaay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <76C6FE72-043C-4EFB-8598-98BB73E11345@hiwaay.net> Cc: Subject: Re: bsdlabel, now no boot 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: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:55:37 -0000 On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Kelly wrote: > Having had a fresh attack at my broken system tonight I discovered the > original PATA drive boots if I disable the SATA drives in BIOS. What > appears to be happening is that no matter the BIOS is told to boot > "IDE" (and doesn't have a SATA boot option) once the SATA drives have > enough formatting to look bootable to BIOS, the BIOS boots the ad4 > SATA drive rather than the ad0 PIDE drive. :-( > > I was trying to geom stripe ad4 and ad6, not ad4s1 and ad6s1. Made my > gstripe with ad4s1 and ad6s1 so that the boot MBR stays untouched. > > System is now booting ad0 by starting at ad4 and hopping to ad6, then > to ad0. Yes, you've discovered a "feature" of the 400SC (I have 3). If you have PATA and SATA disks installed: SATA disabled in BIOS -> PATA boots SATA enabled in BIOS -> SATA boots, and stops if it can't (PATA never attempted) The best work around is to install a boot loader on your SATA HD to point to the PATA HD.