As a follow-up to myself: > Am 16.09.2015 um 14:56 schrieb Konrad Neuwirth <[email protected]>: > I bought a HP MicroServer (the cheaper one, HP N40l) that contains a RAID > controller by the name of HP Smart Array B120i. This device does strange > things to DragonflyBSD. I can boot the system fine when there is no volume > configured, but then it appears to be diskless. As soon as I configure > volumes, the kernel throws an error message very early on, and as the system > immediately reboots, I can’t even say what the message contains.
If gotten the system to run. It turns out you can switch the on-board controller from its RAID mode to be just a SATA AHCI controller. With that setting, installing dragonflybsd was actually straightforward. I’m still mostly fond of the system; it’s a neat little package for a very low price. Greetings, Konrad
