sysinstall: disk not found on zx6000

B. Estrade estrabd at cs.uh.edu
Mon Jul 26 20:25:27 UTC 2010


I am trying to install FreeBSD on an HP zx6000, and sysinstall can't
detect the disks when I attempt to partition the disk.

I have observed that while things boot towards sysinstall, the drive
is detected and the appropriate driver is loaded (mpt).

I've tried 8.0 and 7.3, and neither detect the disk. I've also
determined that the firmware is up to date, but here's the
information:

   Firmware Revision: 2.31 [4411]

   PAL_A Revision: 7.31/5.37
   PAL_B Revision: 5.65

   SAL Spec Revision: 3.01
   SAL_A Revision: 2.00
   SAL_B Revision: 2.31

   EFI Spec Revision: 1.10
   EFI Intel Drop Revision: 14.61
   EFI Build Revision: 1.22

   POSSE Revision: 0.10

   ACPI Revision: 7.00

   BMC Revision 1.52
   IPMI Revision: 1.00
   SMBIOS Revision: 2.3.2a
   Management Processor Revision:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=82069&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=82067&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=54

I've also tried wiping the disk with dd. Any suggestions would be
appreciated. 

TIA,
Brett

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