Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2003 01:04:25 -0500 From: Tim Middleton <x@Vex.Net> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: booting from SCSI drive /w IDE raid Message-ID: <200311090104.25865.x@Vex.Net>
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I have a box (Intel STL2) that I'm trying to install 4.9 on. The installation goes fine, but I've yet to get the box to actually boot the O/S. The best I've done so far is get the bootmanager prompting: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 Now if i hit F1 nothing happens. If I hit F5 i get: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 0 If I hit F5 here i'm back where i started; if i hit F1 at this second bootmanager prompt I am greeted by an "invalid partition" error, and the ever mysterious boot prompt: Invalid partition error Invalid partitoin error No /boot/loader >>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 1:da(1,a)/kernel boot: Here is the probable complication. The box has a SCSI drive on it, and a IDE Raid card. The first time I installed 4.9 I actually forgot to plug the SCSI drive back in, and not paying sufficient attention actually installed the O/S onto the RAID drive... it worked fine. Booted up okay. I noticed the raid showed up as da0 and the real SCSI drive (once plugged back in) was da1. But, I don't want the O/S on the RAID... the O/S needs to be on the SCSI drive. I repartitioned the RIAD and installed to the SCSI drive. The installation goes fine, but I find I have this boot problem described above... I have read in the install documentation where it advises: "Important: If you are installing FreeBSD on a drive other than your first, then the FreeBSD boot manager needs to be installed on both drives." Figuring it would be safest, I have done this, as I think is evidenced by being able to switch between boot menus above with F5. However either bootmanager can seem to find a partition to boot the kernel. So the eternal question: any advice? -- Tim Middleton | Cain Gang Ltd | I have lived through whole tragedies x@veX.net | www.Vex.Net | without speaking a word. --Dost. (GC)
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