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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2022 19:36:17 -0400
From:      Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD 13.1
Message-ID:  <20220606193617.00003548@seibercom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20220606223835.6c645dbabd758e71abcf8ca1@sohara.org>
References:  <20220606171247.00001262@seibercom.net> <20220606223835.6c645dbabd758e71abcf8ca1@sohara.org>

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On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 22:38:35 +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith stated:
>On Mon, 6 Jun 2022 17:12:47 -0400
>Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote:
>
>> I have tried to install FreeBSD 13.1 on my HP-Envy computer without
>> success. The PC is currently running Windows 10 PRO / 64 bit. The PC
>> has 3 disks with a RAID5 configuration. It works fine with Windows.  
>
>	You almost certainly need to go into the BIOS and turn off the
>RAID5 setup there, then you should be able to use the individual
>drives. I'm moderately surprised they even show up if a BIOS RAID is
>setup.

Not only did I have to destroy the RAID, but in the FreeBSD setup, I
had to enter the shell and use gpart to destroy ada0, ada1 and ada2.
Then the setup continued fine.

Thanks for your help Steve.

-- 
Jerry



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