David W. Rankin Jr. wrote:
> I'm installing NetBSD 4.0 Beta 2 onto a new-to-me Dell PowerEdge 2450.
> It's got the RAID card (PERC 3/Si, aac0) installed, and I have confirmed that
> the install media can read and write to ld0 from the install media
> (fdisk, disklabel, and newfs all work). However, the installer won't
> see ld0 as a valid install disk. sysinst says "no valid disks".
>
> I wasn't able to capture the dmesg yet, since the system booted over
> VGA, but I will do that if someone needs the output.
>
> Is NetBSD 4.0 unable to boot off of the ld0 given by the PERC 3/Si,
> or can anyone suggest a way to fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>   

I have a 3ware 9550SX that I've used sysinst to install onto ld0; it's
odd that yours doesn't.  How large is the volume?  Is there any way you
can post the output of dmesg and  fdisk ld0?

+j