ICH6-R
Steve Bertrand
steve at ibctech.ca
Wed Nov 16 19:27:24 GMT 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> Steve Bertrand
> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:58 PM
> To: 'Chuck Swiger'
> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions'
> Subject: RE: ICH6-R
>
>
> > > - During install (this time it's 6.0-RELEASE as of Nov. 3),
> > I have 3
> > > selections to select from when FDISKing etc: ad4, ad6 and ar0.
> > >
> > > - I select ad0 to configure as this is the bootable RAID
> volume, and
> > ^^^ ...?
> > > everything installs perfectly fine. I then proceed to
> > reboot the box,
> > > and a blinking cursor appears in the top-left side of the
> > screen, as
> > > if BSD wants to boot, but nothing ever happens.
> >
> > If you've configured or enabled a RAID setup in the BIOS, then ar0
> > ought to be the device you should use.
>
> Yes, I have RAID-1 configured in the BIOS for SATA drives. My
> other servers (using either Promise cards, or software RAID
> on IDE) are all ar0, so I figured this would be right/
>
> > If you are trying to install to a drive in normal, non-RAID
> mode, then
> > ad0 (if you have it) would be the choice. If you've got static ATA
> > numbering enabled in the kernel and you've got no parallel
> ATA devices
> > attached, only SATA, then
> > ad4 might be right.
>
> All drives are SATA, not PATA. I have tried to boot off of
> ad4, and ad6 respectively to no avail. I'm going to try one
> more install disabling RAID and popping out one of the 2 SATA
> drives in the system to see if that will work, although I'm
> certain I've tried that before.
Ok, I've made it a little farther now. I booted off the CD and went
straight to the loader prompt. I then unloaded the CD's kernel, and did:
# load disk1s1a:/boot/kernel/kernel
# boot
It then dropped me into the mountroot> prompt, in which I typed:
# ufs:ad4s1a
...and up it came. So, I can get the machine running, but only if I
manually load the proper kernel, then manually specify the root device.
I verified that /etc/fstab shows the proper file systems to be mounted.
Apparently, either this is caused by the PC not actually pointing to the
boot device I tell it to in BIOS, or no remnants of FBSD are being found
on the disk.
At least now I know that it *can* work, I just have to figure out how to
get it to come up itself ;)
Steve
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