underligast wrote:
I've tried: CD: disk1 from 6.2, 7.0, CD: bootonly from 7.0-stable, 8.0-current Floppys: 7.0They all end the same, cds with an infinite loop of numbers, floppys with BTX Halted and a lot of numbers. int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00010006 eip=000219b2 eax=000219ac ebx=00000000 ecx=c0000080 edx=000587d8 esi=0003e007 edi=00000000 ebp=0008fcbc esp=00099c88 cs=0008 ds=0010 es=0010 fs=0010 gs=0010 ss=0010 cs:eip=0f 32 0d 00 01 00 00 0f-30 0f 20 e0 83 c8 30 0f 22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00 ss:esp=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00 00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 cc 87 05 00 BTX halted The only difference is when i boot from 7.0-STABLE-200804-i386-bootonly.iso, or 8.0-CURRENT-200807-i386-bootonly.iso, then i see BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 Consoles: internal video/keyboard BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive A: is disk0 Then it stops. If i remove both the harddrives i can boot into the freebsd installer, but as there are no drives, there is nowhere to install.
Did you clear the configuration of the RAID controller? Is there a way you can completely reset it? Can you blank the drives?
What i need to know is how to compile a different kernel, where do i find drivers for the LSI 1030 SCSI-controller? What i see in the old kernel.conf for freebsd 6.0 (or is it 6.2) contains device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion device mfi # LSI MegaRAID SAS
Looking at the source, it seems LSI 1030 is supported by the mpt driver so it should work. Since you have problems with the boot loader, maybe it won't help to build another kernel.
A wild guess could be that there's something on the RAID volume that's keeping the boot loader from working. Maybe the partition table is wrong in a subtle way? If you can get the RAID array to work *after* you boot from a FreeBSD installation CD (i.e. boot the machine without the drives, add drives later), try clearing the first megabyte of the array (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/yourdrive bs=1m count=1).
I have no idea what they are but SAS is serial attached sata isn't it? And if they're uncommented it should mean that they're active and that they're most likely actually already running in the kernel i'm trying to boot from the installation cd? Can i get other drivers/modules or whatever they're called? When i've compiled the new kernel, how do i transfer it to a cd so i can boot the installation with it?
You need to create a bootable CD, at least. Google around, there are several tutorials.
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