From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 19:27:24 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 1A04716A426 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:27:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [209.167.58.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8298743D45 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:27:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from steve@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 32621 invoked by uid 1002); 16 Nov 2005 19:27:22 -0000 Received: from steve@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(209.167.16.15):. Processed in 5.862071 secs); 16 Nov 2005 19:27:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fuze) (209.167.16.15) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) SMTP; 16 Nov 2005 19:27:16 -0000 From: "Steve Bertrand" To: "'Steve Bertrand'" Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:27:15 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 Thread-Index: AcXq1oLm89d2g9KMR3S5w3nGAWgq9AACMKLgAADYgUA= In-Reply-To: <20051116185820.C4F0B43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> X-Qmail-Scanner-Message-ID: <113216923667532607@pearl.ibctech.ca> Message-Id: <20051116192723.8298743D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> 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 19:27:24 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > Steve Bertrand > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:58 PM > To: 'Chuck Swiger' > Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' > Subject: RE: ICH6-R > > > > > - 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. > > Yes, I have RAID-1 configured in the BIOS for SATA drives. My > other servers (using either Promise cards, or software RAID > on IDE) are all ar0, so I figured this would be right/ > > > 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. > > All drives are SATA, not PATA. I have tried to boot off of > ad4, and ad6 respectively to no avail. I'm going to try one > more install disabling RAID and popping out one of the 2 SATA > drives in the system to see if that will work, although I'm > certain I've tried that before. Ok, I've made it a little farther now. I booted off the CD and went straight to the loader prompt. I then unloaded the CD's kernel, and did: # load disk1s1a:/boot/kernel/kernel # boot It then dropped me into the mountroot> prompt, in which I typed: # ufs:ad4s1a ...and up it came. So, I can get the machine running, but only if I manually load the proper kernel, then manually specify the root device. I verified that /etc/fstab shows the proper file systems to be mounted. Apparently, either this is caused by the PC not actually pointing to the boot device I tell it to in BIOS, or no remnants of FBSD are being found on the disk. At least now I know that it *can* work, I just have to figure out how to get it to come up itself ;) Steve >