Hi everybody. I've just upgraded a box from FreeBSD 9 to 9.1 via freebsd-update. At the first reboot, the machine stopped with messages about GRAID : GEOM_RAID: Promise: Subdisk kjihgfedcba`_^]\[ZYXWVUTSRQPONM:0-ada0 state changed from NONE to ACTIVE The trick is that I've never setup any kind of RAID on that old box... Is there a way to completely disable GEOM_RAID loading on boot ? Here are the obligatory blurry-cellphone-pictures of the boot messages : https://www.dropbox.com/s/wqgjsf1adhoaksb/boot1.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/99z1cojz22w7jn4/boot2.jpg https://www.dropbox.com/s/7hk1inrhd1k59zi/boot3.jpg The motherboard is an old GA-8IG100MK, fitted with two supplementary 3com NICs. The specs can be found here : http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1655#sp Chipset : - North Bridge : Intel? 865G GMCH - Intel? 82801EB - Intel? 82562EZ Ethernet Controller - Super I/O: ITE I/O IT8712F chip - Realtek ALC655 CODEC - 3M bit flash ROM TIA, Fred
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, F. Senault wrote:> Hi everybody. > > I've just upgraded a box from FreeBSD 9 to 9.1 via freebsd-update. > > At the first reboot, the machine stopped with messages about GRAID : > > GEOM_RAID: Promise: Subdisk kjihgfedcba`_^]\[ZYXWVUTSRQPONM:0-ada0 state > changed from NONE to ACTIVE > > The trick is that I've never setup any kind of RAID on that old box... > > Is there a way to completely disable GEOM_RAID loading on boot ?Boot into the loader (option 2 at boot menu). Enter: set kern.geom.raid.enable=0 boot That should allow it to boot, and can be added to /boot/loader.conf. I'm not sure of an easy way to clear the metadata for a permanent fix. Apparently some manufacturers use motherboard RAID to test drives, so the metadata may have been on the drive from the factory.