RAID mirror, 6.1 won't boot

[tech at nano.net]

Thanks!

I have a CD on it now, I'll add an IDE drive and make the CD secondary? Are 
you using  a boot manager then?





At 04:18 PM 9/3/2006, OxY wrote:
>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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