From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 2 09:24:42 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 EAA9910656A5 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:24:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7D28FC75 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:24:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so84636fga.13 for ; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:24:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=NhLSO+EcMZvR8hwD+vLOgmlMWk/n/XKnFeMEeR9KncU=; b=CJbt0Bd2bnbIiKVKADcefHSzniD1/8kGlh1wsNpTNPK/D2Jy/i+U7ZzLhM9gAPhqI7 +ZO64Lyml40xO9fqmkeHv474me7xEr7od64GK5bvOzMI8aXOn2TaCppFErWdD13zcOKv 3fcJQVJXXU6Cj4DaHC0t76xcbwchcQj4XpS6w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=kI4g5QlIOVWY9EiHtvNHr1syImOlsnI+pWHk7bet2th2Zm0J4dz9ZTjz6ktD/oYGhF Lz/lBFQPllFAIOaqhpL8l3qk92knrjWNSbcPiCekVsRjB2F6ZGrhjiDB9+oVCcxYGC6c 0eK5ZnZY2q4xbScIDNCOlrvWig9d/YVvMf+k4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.181.205 with SMTP id n13mr572149hbg.66.1267521860790; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:24:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:24:20 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: Dan Naumov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, indiana99@inbox.lv 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 09:24:43 -0000 On 2 March 2010 08:44, Dan Naumov wrote: > >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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > can you actually boot of a geom stripe? I dont think you can and raid10 has striping in it. As ZFS is very resource hungry i suspect thats why he went for a hardware setup