From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 10 18:46:47 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59F337D for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:46:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from john@potato.growveg.org) Received: from potato.growveg.org (growveg-1-pt.tunnel.tserv11.ams1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f14:3d2::2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6031721DE for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:46:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from john by potato.growveg.org with local (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1VJSxF-0007J8-2L for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:46:25 +0100 Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:46:25 +0100 From: John To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers? Message-ID: <20130910184624.GA12584@potato.growveg.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: John X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: john@potato.growveg.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on potato.growveg.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:46:47 -0000 On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:21:02AM -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? Hi, does it use the mfi driver? Because that has been updated. There was an errata notice about it on the 22nd August concerning mfi in JBOD mode and disks >2TB -- John