From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 30 16:41:44 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 69FAD16A41B for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 410C313C442 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:41:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so2996192waf for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:41:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=KoNTjLvbOpWxVdz5Uor9y1tKx4cc0cpoTY6EzcEQvok=; b=BLdj3cjbjrgHdlX+d+n5ka131Lg0xK/InqjUUUkP/x+eW8eQt6A18tMoeCEGAl+hv9O0apLrew+3HttBWz1i3XLskT/LLkgDUIiaYgcsFZDG+yguk8HvUd15JVpE+gvC2aAt8CiswgGJIms6DLsZdUK7ib8ghR5d/9NjbpmE1MY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TUPZUl/Mpffog5rNcG0entL4piseolDiYxXoffrHvLAAMlnQ5GGVca3ly1IC37DCVXPtcuiTXGn+M8YjipvoGVDwDmZN4wZy0pXnL/X3WzenM0jajhuQPeqEB4nMm1wLTi75W9mMFK+QXRifScPmLPps2guTIEg63kCE+wN4gYY= Received: by 10.114.124.1 with SMTP id w1mr508033wac.1196440903427; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.78.8 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:41:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:41:43 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "Per olof Ljungmark" In-Reply-To: <4750390D.6020500@intersonic.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <474FDC43.2060407@intersonic.se> <47502999.4000708@intersonic.se> <4750334F.6010900@intersonic.se> <475034D1.9030706@brianwhalen.net> <4750390D.6020500@intersonic.se> Cc: Brian , 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 16:41:44 -0000 > >>>> > >>>> 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).