From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 16 20:34:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0FB616A41F for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:34:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eam404@earthlink.net) Received: from pop-gadwall.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-gadwall.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838AE43D46 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:34:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eam404@earthlink.net) Received: from elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.224.33]) by pop-gadwall.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #10) id 1E588y-00044h-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:34:44 -0400 Message-ID: <23894574.1124224484544.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:34:44 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Eric Murphy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Earthlink Zoo Mail 1.0 Subject: Raid / Dual booting / Really need help. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Eric Murphy List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:34:45 -0000 Hey guys -- First off let me give you inisght on my hardware. CPU: 3400 AMD 64 MB: Asus A8n-SLI Deluxe Video: Nvidia 6600 GT Ram: 3gigs Crucial HD: (2) SATA Hitachi 80gig Drives RAID: ONBOARD: Silicon Image Sil 1334 Raid Controller ONBOARD: Nvidia Southbridge Raid Controller My Problem: Well it all started when I decided to dual boot my system with Windows Xp, = And FreeBSD 5.4. Installing Windows was no problem. It went flawless. Wh= en I got to installing FreeBSD 5.4 I had noticed that it was not detecting = my Silicon 1334 Raid Controller. And was just showing my 2 Hard Drives (ad4= and ad6) I decided to go ahead and install anyway and setting the boot mg= r on BOTH drives. (Just like the hand book says) Well I rebooted, and the = boot manager loads. Windows boots just fine, but BSD on the other hand doe= s not. I get a NOT UFS no /kernel Error. Now it seems to me that it cant= find the mount points or the kernel on the disk. I think this is caused b= y a non dectected raid controller. My next step was to disable the Silicon= Image 1334 Raid controller and try useing the Nvidia one. I repeated the = SAME steps as above and recieved the same error messages. My next thought = was maybe 5.4 did not support either of my raid controllers. So I decided t= o search the web.. turns out some people got it working, most didnt (Go fig= ure the ones that did get it working did not say how). So I did the only t= hing I could do and try out FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT. I started again with my S= ilicon 1334 Raid controller. Again I had no success and FreeBSD did NOT de= tect my controller. So I had the same resalts. (Not UFS, no /kernel) So = this time, as you could guess I tryed the Nvidia controller. This time how= ever, upon booting the install I noticed that FreeBSD did in fact detect my= nvidia controller! During the FDISK install step I now had (ad4, ad6 AND a= r0). So I went ahead and installed the packages I wanted and had thought I= found a solution to my problem! Well it turns out that 6.0 does not come = with the ports tree OR Xorg. So now im confused - I do not know how to pro= ceed from here. I also was wondering if there was a way to load the driver= for my Nvidia raid controller on my 5.4 installation. So my question come= s down to this: How can I get this working with 5.4 (prehaps by loading a driver?) and if I= cant, how can I get 6.0 up and running with everything I need. Also can an= yone confirm that these raid controllers ARE or ARE NOT supported. Thanks for reading - and if anyone has ANY suggestions PLEASE respond. Ive= already poured my heart out at bsdforums.org haha. -Eric