From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 6:29:37 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C65D37B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 06:29:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bellavista.cz (mail.bellavista.cz [62.168.44.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4592643EA9 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 06:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from neuhauser@bellavista.cz) Received: from freepuppy.bellavista.cz (freepuppy.bellavista.cz [10.0.0.10]) by mail.bellavista.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C61297 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:29:32 +0100 (CET) Received: by freepuppy.bellavista.cz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3B0D32FDE04; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:29:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 15:29:32 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions Subject: can't boot off HPT37A RAID1 array Message-ID: <20030108142932.GA2986@freepuppy.bellavista.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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? -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message. see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message