FreeBSD SCSI/RAID boot problem

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

Marc,

For some reason or another, your loader is awol. You want to attempt a
binary upgrade or full re-install using the FreeBSD install CD to get the
boot blocks and the loader back onto disk.

If you still don't have any luck, try a newer release of FreeBSD, as
5.0-DP1 is three releases ago, is well over a year old, and many, many
fixes have been put in. You're running an old developer preview release,
at least go to 5.0-R... :)

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Marc Cabanatuan wrote:

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> Alright I have posted before regarding this NetServer LH Plus w/ the
> Mylex DAC960 RAID controller and the 5 disk SCSI array.
>
> I have managed to install FreeBSD 5.0-DP1 onto the system, however it
> fails to boot. Last time it just beeped at me and did nothing, this
> was solved by fixing the drive geometry with a win98 boot disk. Now
> the problem is that it seems to not be finding the kernel or /boot
> device or / partition.
>
> Error message is as follows:
>
> Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x45e080)
> No /boot/loader
>
> |> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
> Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel
> boot:
> No /kernel
>
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> could this be a large block assignment problem where a lowlevel format
> could be necessary?
>
> other than that, im out of ideas. a fellow from italy approached me
> stating he has a similar machine and looks like he as well is having
> similar problems (but managed to get 4.9 on there).
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> marc
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