G'day Just take a picture of where it starts booting the OS, this likely to give a hint where the problem lies.
PERC 5 and 6 are all SAS 3GB/s controllers and thus (by now) quite dated, I don't think you can find them in (or get them to work) in the quite modern R410. I don't hink (yet) that it is cause by the RAID controller, because here initially (pre-mfi-backport snapshots) booted fine but couldn' detect storage. Yes, you could go with software RAID, but would have to switch the RAID controller to a plain HBA - or take risk to flash an HBA "IT"-mode LSI firmware for the PERC you use. (but this will void your Dell warranty...) The onboard controllers in such boxes often only bring SATA, so you can just cable the backplane to onboard ports since you cannot drive a SAS backplane on a SATA controller. (SAS controler + backplanes on the other hand can drive SATA disks) -- Mathieu _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
