From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 14 8:30:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B4D37B404 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:30:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail3.corp.shaw.ca (mail.corp.shaw.ca [204.209.208.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEF843F85 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Darren.Gamble@sjrb.ca) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON.MAIL3.SJRB.CA by MAIL3.SJRB.CA (PMDF V6.2 #30522) id <01KTID6NMP1C00064F@MAIL3.SJRB.CA> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:30:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from shawmailims.shaw.ca ("port 4398"@shawmail.shaw.ca [10.0.4.20]) by MAIL3.SJRB.CA (PMDF V6.2 #30522) with ESMTP id <01KTID6NJVRQ0006PV@MAIL3.SJRB.CA> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:30:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: by shawmail.shaw.ca with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:30:24 -0700 Content-return: allowed Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:28:32 -0700 From: Darren Gamble Subject: How to install 5.0 using a DAC960? To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good day, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on a NEC machine with a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller. The machine was running Red Hat Linux before, and I've done a number of FreeBSD installations, so I didn't expect any problems. The install goes fine, however, after the reboot the machine immediately hangs at the Boot Manager prompt. The errata page for 5.0-RELEASE mentions: mly(4) Hangs were reported during FreeBSD 5.0 snapshot installations when installing to mly(4)-supported RAID arrays, in hardware configurations that appear to work fine under FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. These problems have been corrected in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT. This certainly appears to match the symptoms, however the documentation says the DAC960 uses the "mlx" driver, not the "mly" driver (and the "mlx" driver was the one I loaded from the driver disk during the install). In the hopes that this was the same problem, I tried looking for snapshots for 5.0-CURRENT newer than -RELEASE on the various mirror sites, just so that I could get the install done, but none were found. My only other thought was to install from 4.X and upgrade to 5.0, but I think that would be far too messy considering their differences. We also have other machines of varying hardware to install on, but they all use DAC960 RAID controllers too. How can I actually get FreeBSD 5.0-anything on this machine? Please reply if there's any other information that I could supply. Thanks in advance, ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message