Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:04:53 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: nodje <nodje.co@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition Message-ID: <20071010200453.GB18694@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <fc49f00d0710100035j1909c5cgab450f6f3568ab3d@mail.gmail.com> References: <fc49f00d0710100035j1909c5cgab450f6f3568ab3d@mail.gmail.com>
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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"
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