Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:52:51 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org> To: Dennis Glatting <dg@pki2.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers? Message-ID: <20130910185251.GA46692@nargothrond.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309101113250.87344@btw.pki2.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1309101113250.87344@btw.pki2.com>
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On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:21:02 -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? Can you try the mpslsi driver from LSI's web site and see if that works? If it does, then it is a problem we've introduced locally. If it doesn't, then LSI needs to fix it. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@FreeBSD.ORG
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