amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

[Per olof Ljungmark]

Brian wrote:
> Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>> Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>> Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>
>>>> 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do "automatic" 
>>>> partitions and slices, then stops at "F1 FreeBSD" prompt and beeps. 
>>>> Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from.
>>>>
>>>> System is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to 
>>>> enter drive geometry manually but have no idea where to get that 
>>>> info from, perhaps somebody knows where to look?
>>>
>>> i386 does not boot either - same
>>> A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386.
>>
>> Right. If I create two slices, one 50G and one 1.3T and use the first 
>> for /, /var etc. then the system will boot.
>>
>> I would assume from the above that I could perhaps use some other 
>> utility to create a big single slice.

> Is the 2TB max implied here still true?
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-August/095504.html 

Could be but I have *less* than 2TB...