Promise SX6000 controller

[Doug White]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Tom Glover wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Freddie Cash wrote:
>
> > > Before I go beat my head against the proverbial wall - again ....
> >
> > > Any tips on installing 5.2.1 using this controller? Any tricks to
> > > making it bootable? In fact is it possible to make it bootable?
>
> Interestingly I can install 5.2.1 just fine on a RAID 1 using the sx6000.
> However it won't boot - just stops after the "Verifying DMI Pool Data"
> prompt. I can however boot on floppy and it sees the sx6000 as pst0:
> Then I can specify usb:pst0s1a as the boot device at the mountroot> prompt
> at which time it boots off the sx6000. I wonder if I have a BIOS issue.

Yeah, that message is from your BIOS. Its hanging trying to read the MBR
off the array. You might need a firmware update on both the SX6k and
system, or try rearranging the cards in the system, as you might be out of
mappable RAM space for add-in cards.

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