AccelRAID 250 won't boot FreeBSD

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Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:14:58 -0600

    Hello,
    I have an AccelRAID 250 (mylex DAC960PTL) I had 4.9 release
    running a couple of weeks ago but the install must have been a lucky
    alignment of the planets. Currently, on new install I get F1 hang on the
    boot manager or just hangs without.

    The problem arose when I did a new install of 5.1 release over the 4.9
    and the install wouldn't boot. I then reinstalled 4.9 and that wouldn't
    boot. I went back and forth a couple times to no avail. I then low level
    fomatted the drives and reinitialized them but again to no avail. I read
    the suggestion to install linux which changes the drive geometry
    (which it did) but still no luck.

    I've tried setting the active partition during the install by letting the
    install commit to fdisk and succesfully writing to fdisk manually and on
    all occassions a return to fdisk shows the partition not active. I feel like
    the fdisk is writing to a ramdisk and not commiting it to the boot sector
    on exit as all the rest of the install appears to be on the drive. (on
    reinstall the prompt comes up "commiting to existing root...."). Anyone
    have any knowledge on this? I've additionally tried the live CD and the
    mini cd with the same results.

    Are there any bootable floppy sets to bring up a generic kernal that
    doesn't bring up the install routine? Is there a method to correct the
    boot loader manually?

    Thanks,
    Dan

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