Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:29:32 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: can't boot off HPT37A RAID1 array Message-ID: <20030108142932.GA2986@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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I'm trying to get 4.7-RELEASE boot off of HightPoint RocketRAID 100
(HPT370A, BIOS v. 2.34) based RAID1 array.
The machine is IBM Netfinity 3500 M10 with an Adaptec AIC-7895 (v. 2.10)
The disks are two Seagate Barracuda IV ST340016A (PRI/SEC masters on the
card).
I've created the array in the BIOS, dump|restore'd /dev/ad0s1
filesystems (/, /usr) to /dev/ar0s1, halted the machine, and removed the
ad0 disk.
Now I'm supposed to be able to select a disk or an array to boot from in
the HPT bios but as far as I can tell it doesn't really offer the array,
just the disks. Or I don't understand the output, which is *very*
possible:
Channel Status
Channel Drive Name Array Name Mode Size(GB) Status
( ) Primary Master: ST340016A RAID_1_0 ATA/100 40.01 HDD2
Primary Slave: No Drive
Secondary Master: ST340016A RAID_1_0 ATA/100 40.01 Hidden
Secondary Slave: No Drive
IOW it offers (only) the Primary master for selection. I press enter
here, and the HDD2 status changes to BOOT. I quit the BIOS (esc, y), the
system reboots, but only gets here:
Press <Ctrl-H> to run BIOS Setting Utility
Scan Devices: Please Wait...
Primary Master: RAID_1_0
Primary Slave: No Drive
Secondary Master: RAID_1_0
Secondary Slave: No Drive
Invalid partition
Invalid partition
No /boot/loader
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:da(0,s)/kernel
boot:
Invalid partition
No /kernel
BTW, the array seems to be otherwise fine:
Array Status
Array Name Array Mode Block Size Size(GB)
RAID_1_0 RAID 1 (Mirroring) N/A 40.01
I've searched the archives, and found posts with the same problem,
replies to those "it works ok here", but no real help.
Anyone care to help me out of this?
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