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 From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 12:20:56 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8D00F85 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:20:56 +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 8264FC48 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:20:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10B720919 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:20:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web1 ([10.202.2.211]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:20:53 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mjch.net; h= message-id:x-sasl-enc:from:to:cc:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to:references :subject:date; s=mesmtp; bh=nsErkOU0+EBsmo165NOA0T4IXYk=; b=gFSG W46DjecE5SvGq7HtSP+04KPrHLGUned/yz8vnUsskjoln36y9Jh8tN+8oTbh06eq gMbfU0B4VnpMFuvpM90Ab1xt1a8FZEhVFAMBpnqI0nIow3Kr2RMdC+1ZELwpvdbg dAgikJsbVpF9ux5OeiVQE1BfPXKsRT7/Vjcp2eI= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:x-sasl-enc:from:to:cc :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:in-reply-to :references:subject:date; s=smtpout; bh=nsErkOU0+EBsmo165NOA0T4I XYk=; b=iuFJd+nBdLbWVHpVVHmjicxWYkX5RPFD9rSRVtPga9fKVVrLcCjXqzbJ edebOcgDd5wwsAlIvpd8wFkkX5/PGjcfI+yE/jU6IjSvvCN79XjBOHJaxoeMfsY7 tqM2cb91hEfeO+I/R55vGp1/f1YxvbOxoIVA6bOp/p1pJxtBibk= Received: by web1.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id E9AB1AE17FA; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:20:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1413807651.125803.181021689.60A760E9@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: 0X3RNgEwCur7tcEeTY3WBIQhQpxikMvS07QBs+IyYwNl 1413807651 From: Malcolm Herbert To: rene reckschwardt MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-e69fc525 In-Reply-To: <5444DB2E.6080304@reckschwardt.de> References: <1413773375.3926404.180886897.3E56F484@webmail.messagingengine.com> <5444DB2E.6080304@reckschwardt.de> Subject: Re: booting HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer from 2x3TB Toshiba disks? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 23:20:51 +1100 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org 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 12:20:56 -0000 On Mon, Oct 20, 2014, at 20:51, rene reckschwardt wrote: i run some Proliant Server and all booting from internal SCSI, SATA and SAS DIsks. What type of Controller do you use? Do you use Hardraid or JBOD as Boot Disk? Hi Rene - it appears to be an 'HP Smart Array B120i RAID Support' controller but I am wanting to use it in JBOD mode so I can get ZFS to do the magic instead ... I've got the BIOS set to AHCI SATA mode and the SATA controller reports both disks are present during POST. The FreeBSD kernel can see both disks during the install and presents these as ada0 and ada1 This evening I tried several different installations - turns out that if I use the guided ZFS-on-root with either GPT or MBR I get different issues (but boot fails). If I do a guided UFS install with GPT it fails (differently) and if I do a guided install and manually change the layout to a 10GB root with MBR layout I get a bootable system and a login: prompt. I've captured the output of dmesg - [1]http://mjch.net/pub/freebsd/mangala-dmesg.txt I took video during each of the installs and I will run through that tomorrow night and pluck out the relevant bits and pieces. In summary they are: ZFS mirror root with 4K sectors, GPT partitioning: BTX complains it doesn't know where it booted from and panics ZFS mirror root with 4K sectors, MBR partitioning: white-on-red "Illegal VpCode" crash and stack dump[1] UFS guided install to ada0, default layout, GPT partitioning: "gptboot: invalid backup GPT header" and a hard hang UFS guided install to ada0, 10GB single partition, MBR partitioning: valid install, gets to login: so ... I am not sure exactly where to go from here ... I guess I could try with different smaller drives and narrow things down that way, but it's late and I'm fed up at the moment, so that will have to wait ... :) Thanks for the help though, I do appreciate it. Regards, Malcolm [1] I won't transcribe this now, but I can re-generate it if required ... if I remove the USB DVD drive and all other USB devices from the host, it will get to this point and reboot immediately ... -- Malcolm Herbert mjch@mjch.net References 1. http://mjch.net/pub/freebsd/mangala-dmesg.txt From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 14:06:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFC332BE for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fantasia.lunarpages.com (fantasia.lunarpages.com [67.210.124.90]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9D996D17 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 254.sub-70-215-8.myvzw.com ([70.215.8.254]:10577 helo=[192.168.2.115]) by fantasia.lunarpages.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XgCQY-0000nO-Id for freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:51:10 -0700 Message-ID: <54450532.9040805@net-vantage.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:50:58 -0400 From: Roy A Cohen Reply-To: roy@net-vantage.com Organization: Network Advantage LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer from 2x3TB Toshiba disks? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 14:06:43 -0000 I have used LSI HBA cards and SATA disks quite successfully on these servers, addressing each disk separately and using FreeBSD and zfs to create mirrors... For example, FreeBSD is installed in the zroot pool which is mirrored, and then mirrored pairs of other disks are used to house virtual machines, etc. The on-board integrated controller is not up to this task, unfortunately... The LSI cards are around $300 Hope this helps folks. On 10/20/2014 08:20 AM, Malcolm Herbert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014, at 20:51, rene reckschwardt wrote: > > i run some Proliant Server and all booting from internal SCSI, > SATA and > > SAS DIsks. What type of Controller do you use? Do you use > Hardraid or > > JBOD as Boot Disk? > > > > Hi Rene - it appears to be an 'HP Smart Array B120i RAID > Support' controller but I am wanting to use it in JBOD mode so > I can get ZFS to do the magic instead ... I've got the BIOS set > to AHCI SATA mode and the SATA controller reports both disks > are present during POST. The FreeBSD kernel can see both disks > during the install and presents these as ada0 and ada1 > > > > This evening I tried several different installations - turns > out that if I use the guided ZFS-on-root with either GPT or MBR > I get different issues (but boot fails). If I do a guided UFS > install with GPT it fails (differently) and if I do a guided > install and manually change the layout to a 10GB root with MBR > layout I get a bootable system and a login: prompt. > > > > I've captured the output of dmesg - > [1]http://mjch.net/pub/freebsd/mangala-dmesg.txt > > > > I took video during each of the installs and I will run through > that tomorrow night and pluck out the relevant bits and > pieces. In summary they are: > > > > ZFS mirror root with 4K sectors, GPT partitioning: BTX > complains it doesn't know where it booted from and panics > > ZFS mirror root with 4K sectors, MBR partitioning: white-on-red > "Illegal VpCode" crash and stack dump[1] > > UFS guided install to ada0, default layout, GPT partitioning: > "gptboot: invalid backup GPT header" and a hard hang > > UFS guided install to ada0, 10GB single partition, MBR > partitioning: valid install, gets to login: > > > > so ... I am not sure exactly where to go from here ... I guess > I could try with different smaller drives and narrow things > down that way, but it's late and I'm fed up at the moment, so > that will have to wait ... :) > > > > Thanks for the help though, I do appreciate it. > > > > Regards, > > Malcolm > > > > [1] I won't transcribe this now, but I can re-generate it if > required ... if I remove the USB DVD drive and all other USB > devices from the host, it will get to this point and reboot > immediately ... > > > > -- > Malcolm Herbert > mjch@mjch.net > > References > > 1. http://mjch.net/pub/freebsd/mangala-dmesg.txt > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ -- 413-223-9007 opt 1 www.net-vantage.com Our Mission: "Providing the same technology advantages enjoyed by large organizations to small and medium-sized businesses, professional practices, schools, and non-profits, at a realistic and practical cost."