Hi, It seems in order to boot the 6.2-RELEASE cdrom on this system I need to disable the USB2/ehci controller in the BIOS, otherwise it panics after umass is detached during probe (I am attempting to boot from USB CDROM). I was surprised that it didn't fail due to the protected mode boot2 issue which kib has resolved, however that real mode boot code is yet to hit CVS. If the VIA V-RAID BIOS is configured with a 'bootable array', raid does not show up as I'd expect; I have to disable booting from the array in order to get ar0 to show up. The array currently shows up as 'degraded'. If there's a Wiki or something where this information may easily be added please point me at it... JFYI, BMS
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 06:32, Bruce M Simpson wrote:> If the VIA V-RAID BIOS is configured with a 'bootable array', raid > does not show up as I'd expect; I have to disable booting from the > array in order to get ar0 to show up. The array currently shows up as > 'degraded'.On a somewhat related note.. In my experience V-RAID is utter crap - if one of your disks fails in a RAID1 array and you reboot it will give you 2 options - erase the first part of your disk and boot, or sit and do nothing. When I asked my motherboard vendor about this they suggested I switch to SATA mode (to boot off one disk) or to put another disk in and rebuild... Not exactly good for unattended use. This was on an Epox 8HDAI Pro, I don't know if it's any better now or not. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20070523/53b47c5e/attachment.pgp