Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300

[Doug White]

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.

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