freebsd stable - Nov 2003 - booting from SCSI drive /w IDE raid

I have a box (Intel STL2) that I'm trying to install 4.9 on. The
installation
goes fine, but I've yet to get the box to actually boot the O/S. 

The best I've done so far is get the bootmanager prompting:

F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 1

Now if i hit F1 nothing happens. If I hit F5 i get:

F1 FreeBSD
F5 Drive 0

If I hit F5 here i'm back where i started; if i hit F1 at this second 
bootmanager prompt I am greeted by an "invalid partition" error, and
the ever
mysterious boot prompt:

Invalid partition error
Invalid partitoin error
No /boot/loader
>>FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 1:da(1,a)/kernel
boot:

Here is the probable complication. The box has a SCSI drive on it, and a IDE 
Raid card. The first time I installed 4.9 I actually forgot to plug the SCSI 
drive back in, and not paying sufficient attention actually installed the O/S 
onto the RAID drive... it worked fine. Booted up okay. I noticed the raid 
showed up as da0 and the real SCSI drive (once plugged back in) was da1.

But, I don't want the O/S on the RAID... the O/S needs to be on the SCSI 
drive. I repartitioned the RIAD and installed to the SCSI drive. The 
installation goes fine, but I find I have this boot problem described 
above... 

I have read in the install documentation where it advises: "Important: If
you
are installing FreeBSD on a drive other than your first, then the FreeBSD 
boot manager needs to be installed on both drives."

Figuring it would be safest, I have done this, as I think is evidenced by 
being able to switch between boot menus above with F5. 

However either bootmanager can seem to find a partition to boot the kernel. So 
the eternal question: any advice?

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Not entirely sure what happened here, but I'm suspecting the partition/slice
on da0 was marked active and that was complicating things. 

After wiping out completely all partitions on da0 (the RAID drive), da1 (the 
SCSI drive) was able to boot. 

I have since carefully created a new (non-active) partition/slice on da0, and 
am still able to boot from da1, with no active partitions/slices on da0. 

Again, i'm not sure any of the above makes sense... but its working for me 
now, so at least i'm relatively happy despite my ignorance. newfs is
churning
away on several hundred gigabytes... 

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