Cruel and unusual problems with Proliant ML350

[Ivan Voras]

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Pete French wrote:

>> There's something unusual going on and I don't know what else to try.
>> Finally, after fiddling with various options, I've sort-of got it to
>> work by creating two slices (s1, s2), setting root partition on s1a and
>> the rest (/usr, /var, etc.) on s2. Now, the "F1 prompt" boot stage
>> behaves like this:
>
> [snip]
>
> This sounds similar to a Compaq machine I used to have with a SMART RAID
> in it. I had 3 drives - a SCSI, and two on the RAID. It would beep
> at F1 as well. I had to press F5 3 times to cycle through all the drives,
> but then when I got back to the original I could press F1 and it would now
> boot fine.
>
> I never solved it, aand eventually changed machine (though not the
> hardware). At the time it did not matter so much as the machine was
> a server so when booted would just run until it manually needed to be
> restarted.

Hmm, it looks like it's a bug in boot0. I've 
replaced it with ports/sysutils/extipl and the machine boots fine now.

Btw. I can confirm extipl works on amd64, so ONLY_FOR_ARCHS line can be 
updated now. Grub still doesn't.


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