Installing freeBSD on an Intel RAID5 partition
Philip M. Gollucci
pgollucci at ridecharge.com
Wed Oct 10 13:19:04 PDT 2007
Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 03:35:54PM +0800, nodje wrote:
>
>> I couldn't find any answer to the question.The problem is that the installer
>> shows up all the disks instead of proposing to install somewhere on the
>> RAID5 partition, in other words, it just doesn't recognize the RAID5.
>> Is it possible at all to install freeBSD on one of those RAID??
>>
>> I've found out that this is also a problem with the few linux distros I've
>> tried. I've heard it was possible now but I'm a little bit surprised by the
>> slow adoption I must say.
>
> I had something look similar to that on a Dell 2950.
> It put out lots of lines for each separate drive including a device
> controler name. But I had to dig through the boot messages carefully
> to find a device name for the raid controller. But, it was there. Once
> I found it, things went just fine. I may have done something manually
> with fdisk or maybe dd to the raid device before getting things to
> be happy. I don't remember exactly.
>
> Unfortunately, I had to load Susie 10 Linux on it so I can't look back
> right now. It also would have been a Dell Perc something, probably 5.
> So, the device name might be different from the Intel.
>
> But, keep searching.
Strange -- I have PowerEdge 1600 with RAID-5 (3disks) installer worked
just fine.
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p5 #0: Thu Jun 28 17:57:32 UTC 2007
real memory = 2147418112 (2047 MB)
avail memory = 2096361472 (1999 MB)
MPTable: <DELL PE 011B >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 1
cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 0
aacd0: <RAID 5> on aac0
aacd0: 139997MB (286714368 sectors)
df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/aacd0s1a 989M 81M 829M 9% /
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev
/dev/aacd0s1d 1.9G 140K 1.8G 0% /tmp
/dev/aacd0s1e 6.8G 1.9G 4.4G 30% /usr
/dev/aacd0s1g 24G 67M 22G 0% /usr/home
/dev/aacd0s1f 24G 506M 22G 2% /var
/dev/aacd0s1h 70G 3.2G 62G 5% /x1
devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /var/named/dev
This worked out of the box with GENERIC kernel on i386
Kernel config custom snippets:
########## SCSI
device scbus # SCSI Subsystem
device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device cd # CD
device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)
device aac
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