Hi :

Hopefully last question :-) (yeah right)  Do we need to have the root/boot drive on a
non-RAID disk?  (I will also be checking the other stuff)

Thanks Again and Again
JoshJ

Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:05:33PM -0400, jjohns wrote:
> > Hi Gang:
> >
> > Not sure if everyone was getting theses so i am forwarding it on again.
> > Please Help!!
> >
> > Thanks
> > JoshJ
>
> > X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
> > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:10:21 -0400
> > From: jjohns <jjohns@bm.net>
> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U)
> > X-Accept-Language: en,pdf,ja
> > To: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
> > Subject: Re: Raid Controller Cards.
> >
> > Hi Andrew:
> >
> > Here is our process:
> >
> > 1) set up the raid 0 using adaptec software
> > 2) reboot from floppy (we got them from:
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20010526-1.5V/ -
> > boot1.fs,boot2.fs)
> > 3) go through install menu - it finds the raid with no problems (ie/ sees the 2
> > drives combined as one), and set up partitions (custom)
> > 4) When partitions are set -  when we say yes to "do you really want to create
> > partitions" we get this error message:
> >         mount of device /dev/ld0a on / failed
> >
> > Are we doing something wrong? Could  it be because the drive is seen as one large 120
> > gig drive and netBSD doesn't like that?
>
> No, 120G isn't a problem. Don't you see any other error message ?
> Try to get a shell (a ^C should work) and type:
> disklabel ld0
> check that the partitions you created exists
> mount /dev/ld0a /mnt
> and report error message
>
> --
> Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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