From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 15:44:16 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 5A74C16A421 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: from mail2.secureworks.net (mail2.secureworks.net [65.114.32.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E7113C48A for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@jellydonut.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.secureworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF5A617299; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:23:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at secureworks.net Received: from mail2.secureworks.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.secureworks.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id m4LqTC7hsJDN; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from descartes.internal.secureworks.net (mole1.secureworks.net [63.239.86.3]) by mail2.secureworks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F08117295; Fri, 25 May 2007 11:23:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4656FF5E.7090703@jellydonut.org> Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 11:23:10 -0400 From: Michael Proto User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070523 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 15:44:16 -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. > > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. > Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-301-869-4449 x806 > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I believe you can use the following in your kernel config: options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da2s1" Or whatever the appropriate device/slice for your mpt2 controller. -Proto