From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 8 16:13: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from malkav.snowmoon.com (machine-126-237.cdcsd.k12.ny.us [208.20.126.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A102214FA1 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:12:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jaime@malkav.snowmoon.com) Received: (qmail 44209 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Oct 1999 23:12:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Oct 1999 23:12:58 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 19:12:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Jaime Kikpole To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from RAID5 array? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > Sounds like a geometry problem, *or*, the DPT bios is not set to be > bootable. Well the BIOS is set for "Normal" booting order. According to their tech support phone line, that's basically on. > Make sure other devices are disabled (if disk based). What other deives did you have in mind? I disabled the on-board Adaptec 7xxx (can't remember its number) and it didn't help. > What I always do with the RAID cards myself is create a small > DOS partition and then fdisk/format it, and copy the DPT > config utilities to the hard drive. I did this, loaded FreeBSD onto da0s2 and made a 35MB FAT16 (i.e. "DOS") partition. Then I rebooted from an MS-DOS floppy and ran fdisk. It exited with the error message "No fixed disks". (Or something like that.) The box still doesn't see the array as a bootable disk. Suggestions? Thanks, Jaime To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message