RAID5 Failure And Booting

Thu, 27 May 2004 22:06:04 -0700

My RAID-5 array seems to have died this weekend. After coming back from a motorcycle-riding class, I noticed my internet connection was down. I hooked up a monitor and a keyboard to my FreeBSD box, and noticed that the OS was no longer running, that the computer had rebooted, and that the BIOS message was "Insert Bootable Media Into Appropriate Drive".

I'm unfamiliar with this particular message; can anyone explain what might have happened? My understanding is that, since the computer is running a RAID5 array (Adaptec 2400A card + (4) WD2000JB drives) even if one drive fails, the computer will continue running. I replaced one of the drives, which seemed to be clicking on and off, but the computer still is not booting to the OS.

I have a pair of FreeBSD diskettes at my disposal: is there a way to boot from this diskettes, assuming the array is still intact?

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