Help with Booting

Sat Apr 23 20:14:23 UTC 2011

I haven't seen a verbose dmesg output booting from a non-RAID hard drive.

I have 7.4-STABLE working on several multi-CPU Opteron systems, but they 
are all Tyan motherboards.  Are Rioworks/Arima still in business?

Rather than use the on-board controllers I've just bought some of the LSI 
300-8X PCI-X RAID controllers which are cheap and work very well with SATA 
2 drives (and FreeBSD).  The Adaptec 2610 series are even cheaper, but they
are only SATA 1.

Mike Squires
Tyan S2885
Tyan S4881