From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 10:02:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B1316A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:02:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF92B43D45 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:02:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9393672DCB; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:02:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E35772DB5; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:02:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:02:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Eric Anderson In-Reply-To: <404DEC93.9060909@centtech.com> Message-ID: <20040309100043.E69332@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <404DEC93.9060909@centtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Nils Berzins Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:02:23 -0000 On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Eric Anderson wrote: > I have this same issue - Jung-uk Kim (jkim (at) niksun.com) sent me a > patch, that made my life better (below). Something with the PERC > controllers. The only problem for me, was that I have a root partition > on the PERC controller, so I can't boot up to patch it. Anyway, there > are ways to get the job done, but in the end, after sending emails to > various people with no response, I put RedFat on it. I wish I could > have gone with FreeBSD, but I can't have a server that takes me 3 hours > to get rebuilt. Here's the patch he sent, maybe it will help you. Hm, looks like passthrough disks, i.e., those not attached to an array container, cause some problems for amr. Try disconnecting any drives you don't have assigned to an array from the controller and see if you can boot then. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org