From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 28 8:13:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hq.seicom.net (hq.seicom.net [194.97.200.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB0337BF43 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:13:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from porl@lw-datentechnik.de) Received: from gateway by hq.seicom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA59801 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:13:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from host-80.gartenstrasse.intra (lw-datentechnik.de) [192.168.250.80] by gateway with esmtp (Exim 3.03 #1 (Debian)) id 12lEHg-0001BS-00; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 19:10:32 +0200 Message-ID: <3909AA9E.83E9B671@lw-datentechnik.de> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 17:13:34 +0200 From: Robert Porl Organization: L&W Datentechnik X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB,en,de-DE,de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD booting from mylex DAC960 RAID Controller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, While installing the FreeBSD 4.0 Snapshot on a System with a MYLEX DAC960PD Controller (configured as a 3-drive RAID5 - Array), everything worked as expected first. But after the installation was done, i experienced problems booting off the RAID. I have experience with installing Linux on the same machine, and there it worked only from LILO (The linux boot loader) version 21 and up. All Pre-21 versions didnīt know how to handle the RAID. When I choose to install the STANDARD MBR during the setup, the systems stops with an "Operating system not found" at startup. When I choose to install the BootManager MBR, the system presents me with a menu (with one entry: F1 = FreeBSD), but no matter what key i press, it wonīt boot. It just beeps :-((( So i would like to ask whether booting off a Mylex RAID is possible at all with FreeBSD, or if the only solution will be to use a floppy disk or small IDE drive for booting :) Thanks in advance ! - Robert Porl -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety won't have, nor do they deserve, either one. " - Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message