RAID mirror, 6.1 won't boot

[OxY]

try to put in a PATA disk on the primary motherboard controller...
for example primary master...
it solved the problem for me
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <tech at nano.net>
To: <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:08 AM
Subject: RAID mirror, 6.1 won't boot


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> I've got a brand new PC, ASUS P5LD2 motherboard and an Intel P4 3.2 CPU. 
> I've installed the i386 version of 6.1 over a dozen times using different 
> geometries and different drives and such, I get mixed results, but it 
> won't boot. I'm running a RAID mirror on 2 SATA drives. If I have the 
> mirror turned on and the second hard drive installed I get "no boot device 
> available" or I get a boot prompt complaining that it can't find 
> /boot/loader. Right now I just get a "-" that blinks, but no boot and no 
> system message that it can't find a boot device and no BSD boot prompt. If 
> I remove the second drive the system boots normally! If I put it back in 
> it won't boot! BSD sees the RAID controller. Is there any easy way to fix 
> this? It seems like it's really close to working and I really want the 
> redundancy.....
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