Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:23:41 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: Brian <bri@brianwhalen.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot Message-ID: <4750390D.6020500@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <475034D1.9030706@brianwhalen.net> References: <474FDC43.2060407@intersonic.se> <47502999.4000708@intersonic.se> <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se> <475034D1.9030706@brianwhalen.net>
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Brian wrote: > 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. > Is the 2TB max implied here still true? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-August/095504.html Could be but I have *less* than 2TB...
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