From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 10 18:52:59 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F21484 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:52:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@kdm.org) Received: from nargothrond.kdm.org (nargothrond.kdm.org [70.56.43.81]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 126B82246 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nargothrond.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nargothrond.kdm.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r8AIqqdH047373; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:52:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@nargothrond.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by nargothrond.kdm.org (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id r8AIqqUE047372; Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:52:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:52:51 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Dennis Glatting Subject: Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers? Message-ID: <20130910185251.GA46692@nargothrond.kdm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 18:52:59 -0000 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