Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot

2009-10-09 Thread David LeCount
> Then my answer would be missing MBR or boot blocks, an > active > partition alone won't make a system boot. it's just a > flag to say > which partition is bootable, but doesn't mean that the boot > flag > itself makes the partition boot. > > > fdisk(8) and bsdlabel(8) -- see the -B option to b

Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot

2009-10-08 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/8/09, David LeCount wrote: >> Is the aac driver in the kernel, or loaded as a kld before >> you get >> past the boot blocks, and loader? > > It's built into the kernel. Then my answer would be missing MBR or boot blocks, an active partition alone won't make a system boot. it's just a flag

Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot

2009-10-08 Thread David LeCount
> Is the aac driver in the kernel, or loaded as a kld before > you get > past the boot blocks, and loader? It's built into the kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Trouble getting new raid array to boot

2009-10-08 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/8/09, David LeCount wrote: > I just built an aac raid array. I partitioned the disk, set the partition as > active, and copied all my files to it with tar. I changed fstab on the new > drive to reflect the changes. When I try to boot to the array, it says > invalid partition. I've tried typi