Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:41:43 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> To: "Per olof Ljungmark" <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: Brian <bri@brianwhalen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot Message-ID: <d5eb95fc0711300841r48232210jbb18f834e0688887@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4750390D.6020500@intersonic.se> References: <474FDC43.2060407@intersonic.se> <47502999.4000708@intersonic.se> <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se> <475034D1.9030706@brianwhalen.net> <4750390D.6020500@intersonic.se>
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> >>>> > >>>> 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... > _______________________________________________ I have a RAID-5 setup with 3 - 750GB drives. I was able to install, though I did get a couple of warnings in the setup screen about bad geometry (that I did nothing about).
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