Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 16:53:28 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: can't boot off HPT37A RAID1 array Message-ID: <20030108155328.GA394@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
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Hi there,
I'm trying to get FreeBSD 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 freebsd-quesions@ mailing list archives, and found
posts with the same problem, replies to those "it works ok here", but no
real help.
Can you help me out of this?
Thanks,
Roman Neuhauser
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FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE
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