From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 15:22:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2DD16A46C for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:22:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 867BA13C457 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:22:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4PFMfJ7011169; Fri, 25 May 2007 09:22:41 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4656FF3B.50507@samsco.org> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 09:22:35 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070111 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Fri, 25 May 2007 09:22:41 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can I change probe order of mpt controllers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 15:22:44 -0000 Vivek Khera wrote: > I have a shiny new Sun X4100 here and it works pretty well (except that > there is a bug in the ILOM bios that refuses to let the serial port > console run at 115200!!!) > > I attached an external RAID array using an LSI fibre channel card, and > now the boot disk is not found after the kernel boots. Ie, it can't > find the root volume. This is because the fibre channel card is probed > as mpt0 and the on-board disks are connected to mpt2. (Where's mpt1? > no idea.) Once the RAID volume was initialized, the ordering of the > disk device names changed. > > Is there some way to force the boot drive controller to be probed first > and be mpt0? Or is there some way to force the boot drive to be a fixed > device name? > > I'm planning to play with the RAID configuraitons and change partitions > and add logical drives, etc., so this will be painful to reconfigure the > OS every time I reconfigure the RAID. Any advice will be appreciated. > Thanks! > > I'm running 6.2/amd64 from a fresh CD install. > Look in /sys/conf/NOTES for a long discussion on wiring SCSI device order. Scott