Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:03:05 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Mutex Records USA" <mut3x@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex Extremeraid 1100 booting? Message-ID: <200004240303.UAA56743@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:11:36 PDT." <20000424021136.31740.qmail@hotmail.com>
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> I am tinkering with a Mylex Extremeraid 1100 card, on one of those > Supermicro motherboards (no scsi on board, just on the card...) > The Mylex card reports it's self as DAC1164P, FW Ver. 5.07-79 > > The BIOS seemed to format the RAID as RAID5 (3 Seagate Barracuda drives, one > per interface) and the FTP install seemed to go just fine. > > However... > > When I come back up for 'first boot', the system seems to hang at the > Freebsd Bootloader prompt. F1 FreeBSD... and it hangs. > > Any ideas? Try flipping the geometry mode in the controller's BIOS setup; it needs to match what was detected when you install (except when you've had another OS on there and sysinstall gets it wrong). There may be issues with this though - to be safe, use the 2GB mode all around. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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