Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:44:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: Nils Berzins <nberch@db.lv> Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300 Message-ID: <404E1093.2070805@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040309100043.E69332@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <BC73B25E.1E2D5%nberch@db.lv> <404DEC93.9060909@centtech.com> <20040309100043.E69332@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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Doug White wrote: > 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. I had all disks in both disk arrays assigned to logical drives. If I used the onboard controller with a single scsi drive, and had no drive arrays connected to the PERC, then it booted. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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