Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:51:17 +1000 From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Getting Dell 2550 Raid to boot with FreeBSD on FreeBSD-4.3-STABLE Message-ID: <11820.996475877@apnic.net>
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I was able to get my Dell 2550 to install on the perc 3
when I made my own 4.3 STABLE install CD.
It didn't write a valid MBR, and/or didn't make the RAID
container bootable. Maybe installboot didn't run properly?
I booted from CD, launched emergency shell, mounted the drives
and used fdisk -Bi /dev/aacd0 to install /boot/mbr (copied
into the MD / from /mnt/boot/mbr, the floppy doesn't have it)
and set partition 1 to bootable.
Now it boots fine.
Dunno if this is hardware, or a sysinstall glitch. There
seem to be quite a few unanswered questions on freebsd-questions
about this kind of problem...
cheers
-George
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