From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 10: 1:29 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 10:01:27 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.94.6.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 200E337B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 10:01:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from apache@localhost) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA23804; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:17:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 13:17:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200101041817.NAA23804@mail2.wmptl.com> From: "Nathan Vidican" To: Gordon Tetlow Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Mylex DAC960 (RAID 1) + DEC Prioris HX 6000 Server will not recognize boot record for some reason X-Mailer: NeoMail 1.20 X-IPAddress: 216.94.6.26 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I can add another data point for this. We are using FreeBSD 4.0 (I'll be > upgrading them one of these days) and had this exact same problem. My > solution was to make a floppy disk and stuff it in the drive. It did the 3 > phase boot loader and in the loader.rc I added set currdev=disk1s1a which > did the trick. I'm really interested in getting this working as these are > our mailservers that I'd rather not trust to having to boot from floppy > disks. > > -gordon > > On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > > Subject: FreeBSD + Mylex DAC960 (RAID 1) + DEC Prioris HX 6000 Server > > will not recognize boot record for some reason > > > > Having problems booting; the system installs to the mylex system drive > > fine, but when I reboot, I get the FreeBSD boot MGR, and it only beeps > > when I press F1 for FreeBSD. If I install using a normal boot record, > > the system reports 'No operating system found'. I'm thinking it may be > > an issue with the Mylex card, but I don't know for sure if the system's > > bios could cause this either. I cannot attempt to install the mylex card > > in another machine; as the drives attached to it are in a hot-swap > > carriage which is part of the system's chassis. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > > I solved the problem just by adding a 4.5G SCSIUW disk to my first SCSI controller, (Adaptec ON-Board dual channel controller). I installed the system onto the 4.5G SCSI, and mounted the RAID array to a directory which will store alll of our information; next step is just to backup the root partition, and keep a good current backup of it. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message