From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 30 16:15:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B5516A418 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:15:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: from entwistle.sonicboom.org (entwistle.sonicboom.org [66.93.34.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4CA13C459 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:15:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cele.sonicboom.org [66.93.34.172]) by entwistle.sonicboom.org (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lAUG5IHX019681; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:05:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@brianwhalen.net) Message-ID: <475034D1.9030706@brianwhalen.net> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:05:37 -0800 From: Brian User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Per olof Ljungmark References: <474FDC43.2060407@intersonic.se> <47502999.4000708@intersonic.se> <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot 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: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:15:43 -0000 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Is the 2TB max implied here still true? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-August/095504.html brian