Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:59:11 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot Message-ID: <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <47502999.4000708@intersonic.se> References: <474FDC43.2060407@intersonic.se> <47502999.4000708@intersonic.se>
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Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What am I doing wrong? >> >> 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do "automatic" >> partitions and slices, then stops at "F1 FreeBSD" prompt and beeps. >> Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from. >> >> System is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to >> enter drive geometry manually but have no idea where to get that info >> from, perhaps somebody knows where to look? > > i386 does not boot either - same > A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386. Right. If I create two slices, one 50G and one 1.3T and use the first for /, /var etc. then the system will boot. I would assume from the above that I could perhaps use some other utility to create a big single slice.
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