> Steve, I have made good progress. It seems that the factory > shipped the sata drives on ports 3 and 4 of the sata > controller. Both drives where secondary slaves. While we both > know that really shouldnt matter when you build a logical > drive and tell the array controller what span to boot from. > But it looks like freebsd hiccups on it. I moved my sata > drives to ports 1 and 2 on the sata controller, rebuilt the > array, installed and booted off the array with no problems. > > My next issue with this controller is the performance -ick! > There is a blurb about its read perfomance on the intel web > site, Ill keep you posted. Good luck and let me kknow what > your drive configuration is.
Thanks for the info! I'm going to Cc: the list now, in case someone else is having issues. My drives are 1 and 2 as well, as a matter of fact, I've tried them everywhere. No matter what, after install, I get the blinking cursor. I'm going to try to get a chance this aft to play around again, and I'll let you know what I find. If it doesn't work, we can compare BIOS settings. Regards, Steve > > > > > > > Hi Steve, I saw your messages on the FreeBSD mailing list > archives. > > > I am doing some work for a client whom purchased an Intel > > > Se7221bk1-e with one of these embedded ICH6-R raid > controllers. Same > > > symptoms as you stated, install runs great but wont boot from > > > controller. If I boot from the installation media i can mount > > > /dev/rd0s1a. Just wondering if you made any progress with this > > > controller. > > > > That's some fantastic advise...mount / after booting CD! > I'll try that. > > > > Otherwise, no new updates. > > > > i've been watching current, as this chipset doesn't appear > to be the > > only one with this problem. > > > > Keep me posted! > > > > Tks, > > > > Steve > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"