From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 10 20:06:44 2007 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 20DAB16A41A for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:06:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62D913C45D for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:06:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9AK4rpm018898; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:04:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l9AK4rCH018897; Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:04:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:04:53 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: nodje Message-ID: <20071010200453.GB18694@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition 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: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:06:44 -0000 On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0800, nodje wrote: > I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer > shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the > RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the RAID5. > Is it possible at all to install freeBSD on one of those RAID?? > > I've found out that this is also a problem with the few linux distros I've > tried. I've heard it was possible now but I'm a little bit surprised by the > slow adoption I must say. I had something look similar to that on a Dell 2950. It put out lots of lines for each separate drive including a device controler name. But I had to dig through the boot messages carefully to find a device name for the raid controller. But, it was there. Once I found it, things went just fine. I may have done something manually with fdisk or maybe dd to the raid device before getting things to be happy. I don't remember exactly. Unfortunately, I had to load Susie 10 Linux on it so I can't look back right now. It also would have been a Dell Perc something, probably 5. So, the device name might be different from the Intel. But, keep searching. ////jerry > > > I've been using those Intel RAID with Windows for a couple of years now and > it really helped solve my backup problem. > I think this is simply great, no worries of data loss anymore (at least > coming from hardware failure). Well, it is possible to get multiple failures that trash a raid too. So, make some independant backups of important stuff. /jrm > > -nodje > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"