From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 4 17: 7:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from df.lth.se (bartlet.df.lth.se [194.47.250.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615F114E9D for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 17:07:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hundra@df.lth.se) Received: from localhost (hundra@localhost) by df.lth.se (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07069 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:07:29 +0100 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 02:07:29 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Anderberg To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: fbsd current + Mylex raid (dac960) reboot after install fails 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 Hi! I've been trying to install the current Fbsd 4.0 (dated 99120x) onto a machine which has a Mylex AcceleRAID 250 (dac960) card on it. The boot-floppies find the mylex-card and the installation seems to work out great. When installing i've used the novice installation. When in the "Fdisk Partition editor i've chosen" 'A' (for Use entire disk) followed by an 'S' to make the fbsd slice bootable. Finally i pressed 'Yes' (to remain cooperative with any future possible operating systems). I chose to use the FreeBSD Boot Manager. When in the disklabel editor i once again chose 'A' (to automagically make the partitions). The disk-geometry is set manually according to settings i had on a previous linux-installation on the same machine since fbsd seems to have problems detecting the diskgeometry in a corect way. Disksize is 9.1 gig raid 1. Sofar so good.. The installation runs smoothly and i exit the installer to watch the machine reboot and to see fbsd booting. Unfortunately it doesnt. The bootloader appears to load fine, but when it (i'm guessing here) tries to load the fbsd kernel it (the kernel?) panics. The result is a screen that contains alot of debug (?) info plus a line saying 'Invalid Slice'. I've tried installing numerous times using different settings in fdisk / disklabel editor without any success. I've though of 2 things (me guessing again) that could be wrong: 1. Geometry (it works perfectly in linux, shouldn't the same disk geometry work in fbsd?) - can i manually verify this somehow? 2. The kernel that is installed on the hd - does it include support for the raidcard? How do i verify this? If anyone have any clues what might be wrong, please share so i can get this thing working. I hope i've included sufficient information in this letter. Kindest Regards Martin Anderberg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message