Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:39:26 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: curtesy@mindspring.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Setting up a raid Message-ID: <1027960766.bdbd45a0jud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: "curt" <curtesy@mindspring.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 08:46:44 -0700 Subject: Setting up a raid 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 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ If it works like my onboard Promise controller, set up your RAID array in the BIOS and set your machine to boot from it if that's what you want. Then Soeren's very lovely ata driver should allow FreeBSD to grok this setup automagically. (Translation: after setting up the BIOS, boot into the install. Fdisk and disklabel will show you the array. Just put your partitions where you want them and you're good to go.) Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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