Re: FreeBSD + Mylex DAC960 (RAID 1) + DEC Prioris HX 6000 Serverwill not recognize boot record for some reason

2001-01-03 Thread Gordon Tetlow
I can add another data point for this. We are using FreeBSD 4.0 (I'll be upgrading them one of these days) and had this exact same problem. My solution was to make a floppy disk and stuff it in the drive. It did the 3 phase boot loader and in the loader.rc I added set currdev=disk1s1a which did th

Re: FreeBSD + Mylex DAC960 (RAID 1) + DEC Prioris HX 6000 Serverwill not recognize boot record for some reason

2001-01-05 Thread Gordon Tetlow
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mike Smith wrote: > This is a FAQ; you have a geometry mismatch. > > Make sure the BIOS on the card is set for 2GB mode, make sure sysinstall > detects a */128/32 geometry. 8GB mode doesn't work (my fault, will be > fixed once I get my lab set up and some free time). Hmm, I