From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 08:44:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E53F110656C2 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:44:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan.naumov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76BC8FC17 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 08:44:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gya1 with SMTP id 1so3519gya.13 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:44:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=YjdtdVnZwvdjIm4WIcLoBboDShME1XwBViFK/tx6AzU=; b=GuKDtFdBH2BKi4nVJMu3hKsZA/Sx24NIbeBWXcXeFbdzI5/ORO+9jo5rUV92If2Y26 CKW8Z6RZ6qkJ0iOnBVkSDA4QfapxSS5KVqDGscVc32R1f2NaNNGRMqmxVi0EMAkPTfah xUahpu8unYBrg6CiRZPBkXkdwxHorBkfF3YOs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=bFguX/Bz4JJISLP93mZg2HLeGHPYOSv3XoX83JkhBuq3pycZolld2wI4NWnCJ9ODTV wCPPXikH9/yUADvpGdfIuUsfj5/HmEbq6hrLecrNu+yYDEUL+xE9x9Pw0cnU+Drzw4o5 iWtJUz3zJb0qpHXfZg+rpfA5Eqtk2p6Q1xENI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.235.26 with SMTP id i26mr94500anh.163.1267519457801; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:44:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 10:44:17 +0200 Message-ID: From: Dan Naumov To: indiana99@inbox.lv, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: RE: RAID10 doen't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:44:19 -0000 >Hi, >I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help me out! >I have a box with a MB ASUS P5WDG2-WS Pro with two built-in SATA II RAID controllers >(Intel ICH7R and Marvell 88SE614x). >I installed 4 HDD WD WD5002ABYS (500GB each) on the 4 SATA ports of the Intel >ICH7R and using the Intel Matrix Storage Manager I created a RAID10 (Strip 14KB, Size >931.5GB, Status Normal, Bootable Yes) out of these 4 HDD. >Then in the BIOS I set the IDE Configuration to Configure SATA As [RAID], OnBoard >Serial-ATA BOOTROM [Enabled] and disable the Marvell SATA controller, for I use only >the Intel ICH7R. >Then I successfully installed FreeBSD 7.1 on the RAID partition, ar0. > >The installation completed successfully but the system persistently didn't boot and gave this >error message: > >F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:ad >(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel boot: No /boot/kernel/kernel > >Thanks a lot, >Alex Hello, I know that this probably doesn't help much, but I do recall reading in several different places that support for Intel firmware raid in both FreeBSD and Linux is very shaky and limited a best. Is there any particular reason you want to use it instead of using ZFS or gmirror/gstripe/graid5? - Sincerely, Dan Naumov