Jeremy Gagliardi wrote: > I'm having trouble with HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. > > I have 2 disks on it in a mirror configuration. Everything seems to go > swimmingly through the FreeBSD installation, up until the final reboot... > > 1) Boot from Disc 1. > 2) At the "Welcome to FreeBSD" screen, choose option "6" > ok load hptiop > ok boot > 3) It recognizes my mirror as device "da0" and I proceed with the > installation. > 4) I install all distros, except X.org & Ports. > 5) At the tail end, before rebooting, I enter a shell and vi > /boot/loader.conf. I add the line: > hptiop_load="YES" > 6) REBOOT. > > The following happens... > a) RocketRAID card beeps > b) I see the BIOS splash screen > c) I see RocketRAID splash screen > d) It resets and repeats everything above. > > I never even get a boot loader menu to try troubleshooting. > > What did I miss? Why can't this thing boot? Unfortunately, HighPoint's > User Manual was last updated in 2007, when FreeBSD 6.1 was the latest. > Since then, the hptiop driver was added to 7.x, and that's what I'm trying > to use. To be clear, the problem isn't that I can get FreeBSD to mount > and recognize it, I can. The problem is being able to boot from it. > [snip]
In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of the onboard controller. Also ensure that in the Highpoint card BIOS INT 13 is "on", should be this way by default. -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
