From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 14:15:41 2005 Return-Path: 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 41B0A16A4CF for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:15:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0059443D31 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:15:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Sein_Schatten@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Mar 2005 14:15:37 -0000 Received: from pD9538196.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO pD9538196.dip.t-dialin.net) (217.83.129.150) by mail.gmx.net (mp027) with SMTP; 04 Mar 2005 15:15:37 +0100 X-Authenticated: #5084651 From: Sein_Schatten@gmx.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 15:17:06 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503041517.06417.Sein_Schatten@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: freebsd raid problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 14:15:41 -0000 hi. i have installed freebsd on a partition on my hd. but i have a it8212 chip and 4 devices plugged onto it and cant afford to have the hd with freebsd on ide0 (ide1&2 are via it8212). i have to unplug all hds before freebsd is able to boot. if i have one hd on an ide with it8212 it has problems finding the kernel. and when i switch the hd back and use grub to point to the kernel the freebsd loader wont recognize the hd and wont boot. i found this link http://www.xl0.org/FreeBSD/13-12-04.html#ite-it8212f-gigabyte-raid-controller-supported is it possible with that to successfully boot freebsd? how to optain that source and use it? wont i have to patch the kernel?