Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:46:44 -0700 From: "curt" <curtesy@mindspring.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Setting up a raid Message-ID: <000e01c234bb$ad743cc0$4d1afea9@curt>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C23480.F870DE80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have an Iwill XP333MB that has a built-in Highpoint 372 RAID = controller. My problem is with atacontrol and booting. =20 First, I finally figured out that in order to use atacontrol to create = the raid, you must enter the raid identifier in caps! The man pages = give no clue as to this requirement. Very poor documentation here. Second, when the RAID is created, it apparently reassigns device names = or something to that effect, as with RAID1 configured, the machine will = not boot. It halts complaining that it cannot find the boot device = (which in pre-RAID configurtion was ad4s1a). All I get is the mountroot = prompt. Trying to boot using the apparent new boot device (ar0, = appearing to be identified in dmesg as the combination of ad4 and ad5) = by answering the mountroot command prompt with ufs:ar0s1a, gives a = kernel panic.... it cannot find init or any init derivative. Where are = the instructions or examples on how to set this up? I am stuck..=20 HELP! Curt ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C23480.F870DE80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I have an Iwill XP333MB that has a = built-in=20 Highpoint 372 RAID controller. My problem is with atacontrol and=20 booting. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>First, I finally figured out that in = order to use=20 atacontrol to create the raid, you must enter the raid identifier in = caps! =20 The man pages give no clue as to this requirement. Very poor = documentation=20 here.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Second, when the RAID is created, it = apparently=20 reassigns device names or something to that effect, as with RAID1 = configured,=20 the machine will not boot. It halts complaining that it cannot = find the=20 boot device (which in pre-RAID configurtion was ad4s1a). All I get = is the=20 mountroot prompt. Trying to boot using the apparent new boot = device=20 (ar0, appearing to be identified in dmesg as the combination of ad4 and = ad5) by=20 answering the mountroot command prompt with ufs:ar0s1a, gives a kernel = panic....=20 it cannot find init or any init derivative. Where are the=20 instructions or examples on how to set this up? I am stuck.. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>HELP!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Curt</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C23480.F870DE80-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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