booting from SCSI drive /w IDE raid

[Tim Middleton]

I have a box (Intel STL2) that I'm trying to install 4.9 on. The installation 
goes fine, but I've yet to get the box to actually boot the O/S. 

The best I've done so far is get the bootmanager prompting:

F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1

Now if i hit F1 nothing happens. If I hit F5 i get:

F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 0

If I hit F5 here i'm back where i started; if i hit F1 at this second 
bootmanager prompt I am greeted by an "invalid partition" error, and the ever 
mysterious boot prompt:

Invalid partition error
Invalid partitoin error
No /boot/loader

>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 1:da(1,a)/kernel
boot:

Here is the probable complication. The box has a SCSI drive on it, and a IDE 
Raid card. The first time I installed 4.9 I actually forgot to plug the SCSI 
drive back in, and not paying sufficient attention actually installed the O/S 
onto the RAID drive... it worked fine. Booted up okay. I noticed the raid 
showed up as da0 and the real SCSI drive (once plugged back in) was da1.

But, I don't want the O/S on the RAID... the O/S needs to be on the SCSI 
drive. I repartitioned the RIAD and installed to the SCSI drive. The 
installation goes fine, but I find I have this boot problem described 
above... 

I have read in the install documentation where it advises: "Important: If you 
are installing FreeBSD on a drive other than your first, then the FreeBSD 
boot manager needs to be installed on both drives."

Figuring it would be safest, I have done this, as I think is evidenced by 
being able to switch between boot menus above with F5. 

However either bootmanager can seem to find a partition to boot the kernel. So 
the eternal question: any advice?

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