From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 17:52:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 8A4FB16A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:52:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A0DD43D49 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:52:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C74915FA9; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:52:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15170-07; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:52:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-122-227.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.122.227]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E14FB5F89; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:52:15 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <437B71D6.7080907@mac.com> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:52:22 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Bertrand References: <20051116172429.D704143D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051116172429.D704143D49@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: Re: ICH6-R 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, 16 Nov 2005 17:52:18 -0000 Steve Bertrand wrote: [ ... ] > - During install (this time it's 6.0-RELEASE as of Nov. 3), I have 3 > selections to select from when FDISKing etc: ad4, ad6 and ar0. > > - I select ad0 to configure as this is the bootable RAID volume, and ^^^ ...? > everything installs perfectly fine. I then proceed to reboot the box, > and a blinking cursor appears in the top-left side of the screen, as if > BSD wants to boot, but nothing ever happens. If you've configured or enabled a RAID setup in the BIOS, then ar0 ought to be the device you should use. If you are trying to install to a drive in normal, non-RAID mode, then ad0 (if you have it) would be the choice. If you've got static ATA numbering enabled in the kernel and you've got no parallel ATA devices attached, only SATA, then ad4 might be right. -- -Chuck