Hi, all, I have two brand new systems on my desk with Adaptec 5404 SAS RAID cards. I booted an install CD from an USB drive and could install on the RAID 10 just finde. Both 7.3 and an 8.0 snapshot from April. Amd64, of course. Now something weird happens when I boot from hard disk. The "boot:" prompt appears to be waiting for me to hit <Enter> unconditionally. The system does not autoboot by itself. If I install the bootmanager (boot0cfg -B) instead of a standard MBR, the result is the same. The "F1" prompt times out and switches to the next stage, then it's waiting again for me to press a key. When I do that, the audible alarm of the RAID HA goes off and the loading of /boot/loader and the kernel (?) takes "forever" - around five minutes, during which the HA beeps the entire time. Once the FreeBSD boot menu (former "Beastie" menu) appears, everything is silent, again, and the rest of the boot process continues normally. The system, once booted, is running perfectly fine. I tried to replace the first stages of the FreeBSD boot loader with Grub, loading /boot/loader as the next stage - same result. I can boot any current FreeBSD from any external device, normally - but not from the internal RAID volume. As I see this, I could try to skip as much as possible of the standard boot process by using a "dangerously dedicated" disk if that is still supported? Would there be a chance that this might help? We used dedicated disks for years with FreeBSD 2, 3 and 4, but stopped using them around 5, IIRC. Or, if all else fails, I could boot everything up to /boot/loader from a flash module and direct it to the kernel on hard disk. Not pretty, but probably workable. Any suggestions are very welcome. Thanks, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 info@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: J?rgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285