Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > I am updating an old 4.x system to 5.4 here and it has a Promise FT100TX2 > RAID > controller (in mirror). > > The problem is that when I boot the CD the loader crashes (does a reg dump) > but only if the card is present and an array is defined. I can't record what > the dump is because it continually sprays the dump down the screen which > makes it unreadable :( > > I have seen this on an AMD64 system (I used the same RAID card in it) and got > the same problem. To work around it on that system I installed via the > motherboard IDE controller and then moved the disk over to the RAID > controller. > > It only seems to affect booting the installer - once the system is installed > it boots from the RAID card just fine (!) > > I just tried booting from floppy and that works (?!) although that method > doesn't probe my PS/2 keyboard for some reason :-/ > > Does anyone have any suggestions for fixing the RAID + CD boot problem? > > Thanks. > I've exactly the same issue: on a PIII866, only one IDE CD, Floppy and a RAID1 array on the FT100TX2, no way to boot on the CD...
It works with there are no array on the card.
(No array defined, Ctrl-F for bios or <I dont remember, ESC ?> to continue).
-> I just installed on 'ad4'(prim. master from raid card) disk, edited
fstab to mount ar0 instead of ad4, then build (on the card's bios) a
raid1 with ad6(long time copying...), then it boots from the raid. Still
not from a FreeBSD5.4 RELEASE CD, nor a FreeSBIE 1.1 (based on 5.3).
I can do some tests if needed, even if I'm don't really understand more
than 'hello world', I know how to apply patches ;)
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