i386/82029: Boot Loader installation on MegaRAID controller

[Philippe Laquet]

>Number:         82029
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Boot Loader installation on MegaRAID controller
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 08 13:10:06 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Philippe Laquet
>Release:        5.4
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>Environment:
>Description:
Installation of FreeBSD 5.4 on an i386 with a LSI MegaRAID SATA-150-4. The installation process has done well but after running the sysinstall the boot fails and give the following error message :

"Invalid Partition"
"No /boot/loader"

Seems to looking for the boot loader on a wrong device :

"Default: 0:ad(0,a):/kernel"
"No /kernel"
>How-To-Repeat:
Install a FreeBSD 5.4 with any kind of installation, ACPI activated on an i386. Then at the first reboot after installation, this message will appear... Unable to boot.
>Fix:
      
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