From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 9:49:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.eagle.ca (mail2.eagle.ca [209.167.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C13E37B401 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 09:49:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from afi (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by mail2.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g48GfIk70712; Wed, 8 May 2002 12:41:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@brenius.com) Message-ID: <000501c1f6b0$44e72300$7b01a8c0@afi> From: To: "Jean-Mark" Cc: References: <3CD825E6.19DCB160@dupx.freeserve.co.uk> Subject: Re: Mylex RAID to Asus Symbios SCSI Card Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:49:06 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Jean-Mark wrote: > Some questions im surprised noone else asked yet > > 1. Are you getting the fbsd booloader selection (F1, F2 and so on)? I am new to this part of FreeBSD, so I appreciate your help and patience :). I think so, I have been able to do boot -c and boot -s from the boot> menu. > 2. if you are, can you hit spacebar then type boot -c to load the > module configuration screen before going into the full boot. If you get > this far you need to select /deselect drivers appropriately for the > cards being swapped Got into boot -c just now. How would I go about selecting/deselecting the appropriate drivers? > 3. once you've done that there are probably some config files that > need hand editing, but Ive never used RAID just ordinary SCSI. > /etc/fstab should still look the same if it's still possible to keep the > drives as they are without any kind of reinstall, dont know about > anything, im just trying to throw up suggestions Thanks, I appreciate it. Still stuck at the step above, so I`ll hold off on this part for now. > Also dont know if you'll be able to get this far from a normal boot or > if you'll need the fixit floppy or something like that just to get into > files onthe hdd to edit them Got a link for the fixit floppy and how to use it? Lets say I somehow get the drivers setup properly, would I still need the fixit route? Regards, D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message