Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:50:58 -0400 From: Roy A Cohen <roy@net-vantage.com> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer from 2x3TB Toshiba disks? Message-ID: <54450532.9040805@net-vantage.com> In-Reply-To: <1413807651.125803.181021689.60A760E9@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1413773375.3926404.180886897.3E56F484@webmail.messagingengine.com> <5444DB2E.6080304@reckschwardt.de> <1413807651.125803.181021689.60A760E9@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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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."
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