kern/53566

[Nate Lawson]

The following reply was made to PR kern/53566; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nate Lawson <nate at root.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/53566 
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:56:12 -0700 (PDT)

 More user input.  I don't have any way to help hunt this bug.  ips(4) is
 in need of a maintainer.
 
 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:49:37 +0200
 From: Francis GUDIN <fgudin at nerim.fr>
 To: jackp at flag.60north.net
 Cc: scottl at freebsd.org, nate at root.org
 
 Hello,
 
 i just thought about searching the open PRs for a possible help in my
 issue using "ips" and saw yours.
 Don't know if this will give clues to someone, but if that can be
 helpful, here's what i experienced with Serveraid :
 
 i tried to install 5.1 using jp snapshots floppies and i've been lucky
 enough to access sysinstall, though i got a similar warning about
 "ips0: failed to get configuration from device" at kernel startup.
 
 Everything went ok : dedicated a whole RAID1 array ("dangerously"),
 edited labels on it with the full automated option and could install a minimal
 distribution set.
 But upon reboot, mounting the root failed with something like "mount failed: 6"
 and "can't find rootvp".
 At that point, i'm left with a prompt giving a chance to point to the
 right location, but things seem broken since the '?' option to show available
 devices displays a lot of "dead" strings plus a few valid names.
 I tried different variations around "*ipsd*" without luck.
 
 I can't investigate further for now (my girl friend needs a workable
 openoffice, so i'm back to gentoo on this machine). I downloaded IBM's
 latest available support CD (v.6) and will give a try updating the
 adapter's firmware to the latest ; i guess i could at least get rid of
 the warning about the unretrievable config.
 
 Oh ! i forgot to tell you the hardware i'm willing to use : an old
 PCServer 330 and that ServeRaid card (don't know which series, but i
 guess it's a 3sthg).
 
 Please let me know if i can help testing...
 
 Regards,
 Francis.