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Subject: Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers?
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> 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.
>

I'll give it a shot but just to be clear, I have been running the 16 
firmware for months.