From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 02:49:38 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99B93664 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6658BADC for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:49:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2F320676 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:49:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web2 ([10.202.2.212]) by compute6.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:49:36 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mjch.net; h= message-id:x-sasl-enc:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date; s=mesmtp; bh=35v11qWei6bBlYKUTqV89eTbHpQ=; b=JIuIQ01sXSeArrrVStXZ/9vknUEb V2LLUQ1JQttaXFK1esfA3olpRXM5gLrpVTr3CPp9ZPDFlZ4LS8vg+BfOwkcxI9ge 7t9rfOzEVU/CGRxza1044t9GzgVK16z7MnNr1KSaHLBeSs4PcGrdqW4h3w5oeIKV VgiupELkRmDkZr8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:x-sasl-enc:from:to :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject :date; s=smtpout; bh=35v11qWei6bBlYKUTqV89eTbHpQ=; b=FkMTZPmrjMO ITgDCLC6cr1sJWtT79R3QsczWygG9K/JFaVebQuTZ8W88nOLgK9sOPLPDZ/uBVvK YPJjrbfCsynWuCrsmlIAJTJcjmQwxO3nP7SRFAg5YyQ56PoPjxYHSec8r32qC6Q6 MS2ozgZetVZykpeyq3uQ4/gQl9BfIqOg= Received: by web2.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id E4EDD540083; Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:49:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1413773375.3926404.180886897.3E56F484@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: OQiQF/yLrbYjuVQmOk8AFXku4RALL9z04GTOkPdslHSh 1413773375 From: Malcolm Herbert To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-bcc46ea5 Subject: booting HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer from 2x3TB Toshiba disks? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:49:35 +1100 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:49:38 -0000 folks - I'm having great problems when attempting to get this host to boot FreeBSD from the internal disks. I have in the past run FreeNAS on it however the host was booting from an external USB thumbdrive as FreeNAS refuses to allow a disk to contain the OS as well as data (by my understanding) I did initially install FreeBSD 9.3 using the same USB drive and had that working OK with a ZFS mirror of the internal disks, however this was slow when fetching binaries via USB and in any event, the thumbdrive died completely a week or two ago. Since then I've tried installing 10.0 onto the two internal disks, selecting the experimental 'install to ZFS root' option however no combination of GPT/MBR or disk block sizes that I have tried so far has worked - I've also tried installing as a UFS root system just to completely explore the problem space but had no luck with that either ... I had the internal disks known to the array but not configured, and have also stepped through different SATA modes that the board offers to no avail. I do have some more information and photos of the console at home with the crash dump details but so far it's got me stumped. Has anyone else tried installation onto one of these units? Has anything like this occurred to others? I'm aiming to configure the host to boot from an encrypted ZFS root mirror ... Regards, Malcolm -- Malcolm Herbert mjch@mjch.net