DL380 G5 won't boot

[Geoff Buckingham]

Make sure / (and therefore /boot) are at the front of the disk.
Don't use the whole disk - swap as / if you have try reducing it to a
few gig.
Look at RAID/BIOS geometry settings particularly the 32/63 spt stuff. 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Rob
Crommentuijn
Sent: 28 February 2007 15:27
To: freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
Subject: DL380 G5 won't boot

Hello,

I'm trying to install A HP dl380G5 with P600 controller, 2gb ram, 5
146gb sas disk's in Raid 5 with hotspare.

The installation of Freebsd 6.2 I386 (with the bootonly cd) goed well,
with 1 small problem. When I want to create the slice for the
partitions, the installer will give me a Geometry incorrect warning and
sets it's to what it thinks is correct. The installation then goes
without a problem. 

When I reboot at the end of the installation it hangs at displaying the
bootloader (i'm using the freebsd bootmanager). Then the system bleeps
every few seconds. Rebooting using ctrl+alt+del is still possible, but
it won't boot. Also tried the AMD64 edition, but problem is the same.

Can you guys identify the problem i'm having? If you need some more
information, just ask for it. 

Rob Crommentuijn
Systems and Network Administrator
rcrommentuijn at adimec.nl
Adimec Advanced Image Systems B.V.
The Netherlands
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