not booting from Netraid card on install

Bob Ababurko ababurko at adelphia.net
Fri Sep 16 17:05:20 PDT 2005


Hello-

I posted a similar message to the freebsd-questions list but wanted to 
also make sure some of the SCSI people saw this in hopes that someone 
will catch my error or problem.

I am setting up a machine with a 3 channel NetRAID D4943 card and a 
Biostar M7VIG 400.  I have the card set up one one channel with four WD 
9.15GB 10k U2 LVD SCSI  drives in raid 5 and have been able to install 
the OS.  The drive capacity is correctly shown as is the amr 
drive/partitions when I booted the machine off the install floppies to 
install the OS(FreeBSD5.4).  Install seems to go fine and have no 
problem....the leds on the raid 5 array light up when data was being 
downloaded from Internet.  When I try to reboot/boot the box, it hits 
the floppy drive and then just hangs(just as specified in the BIOS).  If 
I change the BIOS to not include the scsi bus, then it says that there 
is not system disk.  There are no messages or errors on the screen.

Does anyone have any advice for this problem?

Thanks,
Bob


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