From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 9 10:45:22 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 899FD16A4CE for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:45:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41D743D2D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:45:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i29IjIE8002629; Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:45:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <404E1093.2070805@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:44:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040205 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug White References: <404DEC93.9060909@centtech.com> <20040309100043.E69332@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040309100043.E69332@carver.gumbysoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 18:45:22 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------