Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:35:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org> Cc: Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309101233210.18147@btw.pki2.com> In-Reply-To: <20130910192606.GA49545@nargothrond.kdm.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309101113250.87344@btw.pki2.com> <20130910185251.GA46692@nargothrond.kdm.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309101210190.4543@btw.pki2.com> <20130910192606.GA49545@nargothrond.kdm.org>
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:11:38 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: >> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:21:02 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: >>>> >>>> Today I updated several systems against stable/9 that had not bee updated >>>> in ~five months. Two of the systems are serviced by LSI 2008 controllers >>>> with a RAID1 array housing the operating system. >>>> >>>> These systems no longer properly boot. >>>> >>>> Specifically, they begin the boot process but bomb when they try to mount >>>> root. Neither system sees the GPT partitions of the boot disk at the >>>> "mountroot>" prompt. On one system I replaced the hard disks, >>>> repartitioned, and reinstalled but the problem continued. >>>> >>>> I don't see any mention of geom or controller update in UPDATING but I >>>> know they have been updated because I saw their revisions fly actross my >>>> screen during the svn update. Also, I am running IR vers 16 on my >>>> controllers, which is the latest version of LSI firmware. >>>> >>>> Is there some new action I have to take to sucessfully boot LSI disks >>>> against the updated kernel? >>> >>> Can you try the mpslsi driver from LSI's web site and see if that works? >>> >>> If it does, then it is a problem we've introduced locally. >>> >> >> I'll give it a shot but just to be clear, I have been running the 16 >> firmware for months. > > The issue is very likely in the driver, not the firmware. I'm just > trying to figure out whether it broke in LSI's Phase 16 or in our > additional changes in FreeBSD. > > In any case, I've reproduced the problem, and hopefully I'll know soon > where the issue is. > > So don't worry about trying LSI's driver. Just go back to the previous > version of stable/9 that worked for you until we fix it. > > This only affects RAID volumes, not regular disks. > Thanks. I downloaded the mpslsi.ko driver from LSI under r255451 and the system now boots.
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