From owner-freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Wed Sep 16 11:52:03 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7039CD751 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:52:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk) Received: from smtp.krpservers.com (smtp.krpservers.com [62.13.128.145]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.krpservers.com", Issuer "RapidSSL SHA256 CA - G3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3ACAF1306 for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:52:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk) Received: from [10.12.30.106] (vpn01-01.tdx.co.uk [62.13.130.213] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.krpservers.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t8GBpR3n042536 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:51:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk) Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:51:53 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Proliant DL320 Gen8 Mk2 - 'virtual CD boot' fails with error 19? Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 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: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:52:03 -0000 Hi All, Does anyone know a way of persuading Proliant G8's to boot off of an ILO virtual CD? We've used this for a while to install FreeBSD at remote locations (e.g. via Supermicro's IPMI - and early ILO versions) - but the G8's we're using now fail... i.e. Log into ILO - start a console session, 'attach' an ISO to the virtual CDROM - boot the server. This seems to go fine until the mountroot point - where we get: Trying to mount root from [blah] []... mountroot: waiting for device [blah] Mounting from [blah] failed with error 19. We also see a number of: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0) CAM status: CCB request completed with an error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0) Retrying command (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0) INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 01 00 00 [blah] is some path to the CDROM - you can retry it with 'cd9660:/dev/acd0' - but that nets the same error. '?' at the mountroot point shows the local hard drive partitions - but no CDROM device I can see. So it looks like at the cross over point from 'BIOS' calls to access the CD to the kernel's drivers, something isn't happy. If you repeat the process a *large number of times* (e.g. several in a row) - it will finally 'catch' and work - but the rest of the time you just get this error. Can anyone think of anything that can be tweaked to get this working a bit more reliably? Thanks, -Karl