From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 2 11: 1:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BB437B6AC for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:01:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F5F12732; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:01:34 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000302193809.A20528@internal> References: <20000302184212.A20215@internal> <20000302190648.A20429@internal> <20000302193809.A20528@internal> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:57:06 +0100 To: Andre Albsmeier From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Crash on boot when disks are present? Cc: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:38 PM +0100 2000/3/2, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Hmm, don't know if this one might cause problems. Do you > really use two slices on this drive? You might try to > change this into 254 if you really use the slice... I'm testing out a variety of configurations. One thing I'm looking at is trying to get more speed out of this bloody thing by having it define multiple RAID-5 or RAID-0 devices, then doing software striping across them (it can't do this internally). So yes, in that configuration I would need multiple slices. > You might try the following: Go into the Adaptec BIOS with CTRL-A > and disable the 'include in BIOS scan' entry for every drive > except the boot drive. Hmm. I had tried doing that before (so that I didn't have to re-order the devices that the BIOS tried to boot from), and didn't have any success finding it. I'll have to look again. > If you boot from da0 disable the entry > for all other drives on all controllers. As a result, you will > see only your boot drive being scanned during boot. If you can boot > (single user mode is enough) then it might be the same problem as > I had. I'll give it a shot and see what happens. Thanks! -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message