From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jan 26 21:11:34 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 279CFA6F405 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:11:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "neonpark.inter-sonic.com", Issuer "StartCom Class 2 Primary Intermediate Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E6812861 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:11:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at Intersonic AB Subject: Re: WIll FreeBSD 9.3 work on this hardware? To: Gary Mitchell , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" References: From: Per olof Ljungmark X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Organization: Intersonic AB Message-ID: <56A7DF74.9040409@intersonic.se> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:04:52 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:11:34 -0000 On 2016-01-26 12:57, Gary Mitchell wrote: > Hello, > > I have been asked by a customer to provide a server that will run > FreeBSD 9.3 and having read some of your online documentation about > controller cards I see the P410/P410i is supported, but can you tell > me if this system/configuration is adequate and supported please? > > DL380 G7(8SFF) X5650 2.66ghz 6C(2P), 64GB(16x4GB PC3-10600R), 2x > 460W, DVD-RW, P410/512FBWC, Rails, 8x500GB SAS HDD > > I have not come across your software before so have no knowledge on > its use or compatibility, if you can confirm it will be OK (or not) > that would be much appreciated. > > Kind Regards, > > [R710 CTO Servers] > Hi, We did run 9-STABLE on DL360/380 G6 and G7, P400/410/411 controllers without much effort. There was one gotcha with the controller and ZFS, I think it is documented in a bug report or archives somewhere, but below are my notes from that particular issue. If the problem shows, you need to boot a Live CD and remember how you named the pool. I think I also found that by assigning the second volume (da1) as boot drive it worked as well. Good luck! ## zfsboot.patch --- zfsboot.c-orig 2015-07-17 15:45:14.525109333 +0200 +++ zfsboot.c 2015-07-17 15:45:37.644107022 +0200 @@ -453,6 +453,7 @@ heap_end = (char *) PTOV(bios_basemem); } + printf("hello\n"); dsk = malloc(sizeof(struct dsk)); dsk->drive = *(uint8_t *)PTOV(ARGS); dsk->type = dsk->drive & DRV_HARD ? TYPE_AD : TYPE_FD; -------------------------- Adding printf("hello\n"); before dsk = malloc(sizeof(struct dsk)); keeps the dsk->drive value assigned to 0x80 and the box will boot. # cd /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot # patch zfsboot.c-orig < /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/zfsboot.c # cd ../../ # make # make install - or # cd /usr/src/sys/boot/ # make cleandir # make cleandir # make obj # make depend # make # make install * Do not forget: camcontrol devlist gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 da1 ------------------------------ # use LiveCD in case of emergency Boot to Beastie, boot options, loader prompt load /boot/kernel/kernel load /boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko load /boot/kernel/zfs.ko set vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs: