From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 17:38:28 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4645C106564A for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:38:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [75.101.116.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5138FC18 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (pool-108-23-64-87.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [108.23.64.87]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id p3NHbq2A054229 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:37:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: <201104231704.14910.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:37:52 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <201104231620.16475.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> <201104231704.14910.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: Erich Dollansky X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with Booting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:38:28 -0000 On 23 April 2011, at 03:04, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, >=20 > On Saturday 23 April 2011 16:30:39 Doug Hardie wrote: >>=20 >> On 23 April 2011, at 02:20, Erich Dollansky wrote: >>>=20 >>> I only can tell what I do when a machine does not boot from the = installation media: I plug the disk into another machine, install the = generic kernel, edit /etc and put it back. >>>=20 >>> If this does not work, it will be hard. >>=20 >> That works, but then I end up without having RAID activated. I am = trying to get the hardware RAID working. >>=20 > but your system runs then. Isn't it possible then to build a custom = kernel which supports the specific RAID hardware on this machine and = install the new kernel there. >=20 > Oh, could it be that the loader is not able to start from the RAID = hardware? Is it possible that even a custom kernel will need an extra = boot medium to start with? Thats what I was hoping to be able to do. However, I can't get it to = boot without the RAID either. I have tried numerous tests of formatting = the drives on the RAID, then moving them to another system and = installing the software. They still won't boot. The RAID appears to be = using a very unusual bootstrap. I get the message "OS not found" = continuously on the screen regardless of how I build the system. = Somehow I am going to need to be able to boot from CD or memstick to get = this working.