On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Cameron Tune <[email protected]> wrote: > Last month I purchased a Highpoint 2320 raid card, > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115026 , for my > FreeBSD server. I'm new to the FreeBSD world - so please bear with me as I > try to solve the following issue. > > With the card installed - the server hangs during the boot process. I don't > even get to the standard FreeBSD boot menus (loader prompt, single-user mode, > etc.), rather the freeze occurs after a "console" message and then a listing > of physical disks. A picture of where the hang occurs is at > http://www.camerontune.com/images/photo.jpg . > > As far as I can tell this card is supported on FreeBSD (running 8.1 STABLE > i386). I've updated the motherboard bios, and have also monkeyed around with > just about every possible setting in the card's bios. Motherboard is a > Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P. > > I've combed through every possible log I can find in /var/logs - but I'm not > finding anything that starts this early in the boot process. I've also > ensured that all drivers are present and loaded in loader.conf - however I > don't think I'm even getting to the point of drivers being loaded. > > Any thoughts are appreciated - and please let me know if there's any > additional information I can provide that may help diagnose the problem.
I had a Silicon Image Inc SATALink/SATARaid Controller (Sil 3114). After I installed the card, the system would hang on boot every other time, until one day it hung -- for good. I replaced it with an identical, new card, and things have been good ever since. Maybe you got a bad egg? -Brandon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
