when I disable acpi in Option 2 for the following screen attached Luiz > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:38:59 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pfSense] Problems with installing pfSense Kernel 8.1 on R420 > Poweregde? > > 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
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