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. -- 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/20050625/da876429/attachment-0001.bin
I have experienced this (since about 5.3) on a dual PIII Tyan S1834. In my case perseverance seems to pay off - one in (approx) 10 boots will work... Mark 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? >
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 ;) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- / Geoffroy DESVERNAY | \ / `Service info` | Tel: (+33|0)4 91 05 45 24 \ \ Ecole G?n?raliste d'Ing?nieurs| Fax: (+33|0)4 91 05 45 98 / \ ...de MARSEILLE | dgeo _AT_ egim-mrs.fr / ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4535 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050806/8d6b4279/smime.bin