Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:21:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Mahlerwein <mahlerrd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: ML370 (G1), boot options Message-ID: <475559.43160.qm@web51006.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Hi, all.=A0 I've searched the archives as best I can, and also consulted th= e Great Oracle of Google, but seem to be getting nowhere in a little projec= t I'm doing. I know it's not always good form to include more than one problem in a post= , so I apologize in advance, but since answering one of the three questions= may mean the other two no longer need an answer, I feel it's appropriate i= n this case. I recently retrieved a ML370 G1 off the to-be-recycled heap here at work.= =A0 It'll replace my aging 550 MHz PIII single-processor PC I've had presse= d into "server" duty for ages.=A0 The ML370 is in fine physical order and i= s a Dual PIII 866 with a Smart Array 3200 in it, 2x 36 GB drives and 4x 18 = GB.=A0 I have downloaded and used a SmartStart 5.5 CD to verify all seems w= ell and to reconfigure the RAID to my needs. Issue 1: During my first attempt at installing FreeBSD 7.0, I found I could= n't boot from the CD.=A0 No problem, I thought, I'll just create the floppi= es and do a net install from there - I was sure it was just a Old CD Drive = + Burnt CD =3D no booting. I created boot.flp and kern.flp figuring if I ne= eded more floppies out of the set I'll keep overwriting those two.=A0 (I'm = slowly running out of good floppies!) =A0 I wasn't paying that close of att= ention, but I realized about mid-way through the install the system never a= sked me for the kernel floppy.=A0 I was a bit puzzled, but figured maybe th= e boot floppy saw the CD and passed control to it... Q1: Does anyone know what likely happened there?=A0 I *DID* at least start = the boot from the floppy, I remember seeing that little piece, but afterwar= ds, it was magic...=A0 Will the boot floppy hand off to the CD if/when it s= ees it? Issue 2: The install went fine, the only real issue is in the obnoxiously l= oud and bothersome fan noise.=A0 Options don't seem to be in the BIOS (?!?)= but I found the FreeBSD Tools for ProLiant page (http://people.freebsd.org= /~jcagle/) and thought "Perfect!"=A0 I noticed it had images for 4.x, 5.x a= nd 6.2.=A0 No 7.0...=A0 Since I had 7.0 already installed, I tried winging = it and and installing the various pieces for 6.2 and doing ldconfig and ins= talling compat layers and whatnot, but I couldn't quite get it working.=A0= =20 Q2: Does anyone have some reasonably easy to follow docs on making at least= hpasm work on 7.0?=A0 I've seen a few vague references to it working after= an upgrade from 6.x to 7, but docs are surprisingly sparse AFAICT. Issue 3: So I thought to install 6.3, which I guess will very likely work u= sing the 6.2 build of hpasm.=A0 I changed my boot disk to a 6.3 one, stuck = it in the floppy drive and booted, but the system happily and without quest= ion booted from the hard drives.=A0 Tonight I hope to find time to do a 6.3= CD + a 6.3 boot floppy and see if I can get it up that way, but I'd love t= o find out what may be going on with this.=A0 I don't think that will work,= because I think it was only booting from CD/Floppy *after* the hard drive = boot failed.=A0 I don't really want to delete the arrays so it will fail ba= ck over to floppy booting, but at this point I'd try it if there's no easy = way.=A0 But, I'm *positive* there's an easier way...=20 Q3: How do you change the boot order to include the floppy disk?=A0=20 I would appreciate any help someone can give or pointers to other informati= on for me to try proceeding on my own. Many thanks, Rich I tried winging it and doing the 7.0 and addressing issues as they came up = (which involved a few hoops with compat_6x, _5x and ldconfig, I think), but= I never quite got it going.=A0 I'm thinking about starting over with 6.3, = which I believe I will have a much, much greater chance to get working. 7.0 was a bear to get on it, but only because it wouldn't recognize my burn= t CD as bootable.=A0 I realize now that I never got to kern.flp, though - b= oot.flp was all it took.=A0 I don't know if that's because magically my unb= ootable CD became bootable, or if the bootable floppy figured out there was= a CD there and used it. So I decided reinstalling from 6.3 wouldn't be an issue, except I=20 =A0=20 =A0 Rich Mahlerwein mahlerrd@yahoo.com Mobile: 715-891-7420
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