Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:13:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jacob Smith <jsmith@coolbluei.com> To: "Lee E. Hinman Ph.D." <hinman@networkcs.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with fdisk on proliant dl380 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0106271107080.672-100000@lucy.tbscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20010627094726.B46125@us.msp.networkcs.com>
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lee E. Hinman Ph.D. wrote: > Jacob, > > I've got FreeBSD working on several dl380, and it works great. > Here are a couple of things I did while installing. I know I did > *NOT* set the FreeBSD partition to bootable, and I did *NOT* choose > dangerously dedicated mode. Also I didn't install a boot manager. > > Here is what a snapshot of one of my fdisk screens looks like: > > Disk name: idad0 FDISK Partition Editor > DISK Geometry: 4353 cyls/255 heads/32 sectors = 35520480 sectors (17343MB) > > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags > > 0 32 31 - 6 unused 0 > 32 35520448 35520479 idad0s1 3 freebsd 165 C > > Lee thank you for your response, since last night I have gotten freeBSD to install but only after seitching to one disk and no Raid settings. From my investigation it appears I have to build a custom boot disk that has the support for the IDA driver for the raid contoller on it. I really have no idea how to do that at this point but hopefully I can figure it out within the next few hours. Thanks again for your help, Jake Smith To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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