Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:56:02 -0500 From: Oliver Neubauer <oliver@bronskill.com> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Mylex DAC1180 booting problem Message-ID: <4033ED82.4030405@bronskill.com>
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Hello all, I'm having a tough time getting a new FreeBSD 5.2 installation to boot off of a RAID system drive (Mylex DAC1180, two RAID 5 system disks defined, 2G mode). Essentially, I have done a standard install, creating a FreeBSD slice on the smaller (5G) system drive (using the whole disk, non-dd mode) and even created a separate partition on that slice for /boot (200M). When I reboot the system, the boot screen says it can't find /boot or kernel. I suspect this is largely due to the fact that it seems to be looking on ad0a instead of mlxd0d since it's displaying something like 0:(ad,0)/boot I hate to sound like such a newb, but my attempts to change the loader's default is falling well short of producing any results. So I guess my direct questions are: How can I use the (horribly crippled, it seems) virtual shell from the installer to modify the boot loader's behavior via boot.conf (mounting the disk is the problem here). and/or How can I make it look for /boot on another device at boot time? Anyone have any helpful advice? Thanks Oliver
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