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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[-- Attachment #1 --] I have an Iwill XP333MB that has a built-in Highpoint 372 RAID controller. My problem is with atacontrol and booting. 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.. HELP! Curt [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have an Iwill XP333MB that has a built-in Highpoint 372 RAID controller. My problem is with atacontrol and booting. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>HELP!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Curt</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>help
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