Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Tue Mar 9 10:45:22 PST 2004
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
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