poweredge 1850 won't boot 7.1? maybe LSI-related : amr0:
adapter is busy
Brian A. Seklecki
lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org
Wed Feb 11 07:54:08 PST 2009
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 15:51 +0100, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> Hello,
> This afternoon I wanted to upgrade to 7.1 two good old dell PowerEdge
> servers which were running FreeBSD 6.x. It went fine and quickly on the
There's already discussion about this in the archives. We're aware and
working on it.
Set:
/boo/loader.conf
kern.cam.scsi_delay=20000
As a work-around for now.
Tracking the megarc memory corruption (and general amr(4) problems with
the PERC4) at:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=128082
~BAS
> poweredge 1950, but it failed completely on the poweredge 1850.
>
> Facts:
>
> - boot cd and setup / operation of freebsd 6.x or 7.0 is fine
> Message log abstract:
> $ uname -v
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sun Dec 21 08:31:52 UTC 2008 root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> $ dmesg|grep amr
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.53> mem 0xd80f0000-0xd80fffff,0xdfde0000-0xdfdfffff irq 46 at device 14.0 on pci2
> amr0: Using 64-bit DMA
> amr0: [ITHREAD]
> amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
> amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Si> Firmware 521X, BIOS H430, 256MB RAM
> amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
> amrd0: <LSILogic MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd0: 69880MB (143114240 sectors) RAID 1 (optimal)
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/amrd0s1a
>
> - boot cd of 7.1 fails because the installed doesn't see any harddisk.
> Message log abstract:
> amr0: adapter is busy
> amr0: adapter is busy
> amr0: delete logical drives supported by controller
>
>
> I also tried to setup 7.0, and then upgrade to 7.1 with freebsd-update,
> but then it fails exactly like with the 7.1 boot CD
> (7.1-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso). Screenshot:
> http://omx.ch/om/stuff/pe1850bsd71error.jpg
>
> BIOS Message about the Controller on system startup:
> PowerEdge Expandable RAID COntroller BIOS, (c) 2006 LSI Logic
> Corporation
>
> I'm not sure what I can try next... I'd still like to be able to run
> 7.1 on this host as well as on several other old but still fine 1850. Is
> my system simply too old? Why is my adapter "busy" under 7.1? What
> would you try? I checked the relnotes as well, but saw nothing helpful
> about my problem there.
>
> regards & thanks in advance for any feedback,
> Olivier
>
>
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