FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200

[Steven Hartland]

mps has been in FreeBSD for years surely older than 9.1 are you
sure you have a generic kernel?

    Regards
    Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl Dunn" <kdunn at acm.org>
To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200


>I got a Dell T110-II server on 2013-July-19.  It has two 1Tbyte drives 
> that the PERC H200 controls, RAID 1.  I tried to install 
> FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE from a DVD from FreebsdMall.  The autopart segfaulted, 
> evidently because it could not find any disks.  I think there is a PR 
> about the segfaulting (bad bug, no messages).
> 
> I worked around the problem by going to the loader prompt when the initial 
> boot choice screen came up; it's option 2.  I gave the commands:
> 
>   load mps.ko
>   boot
> 
> Install went fine.  I had to create (last bsdinstall screen, shell option) 
> the file /boot/loader.conf, containing the single line:
> 
>   mps_load="YES"
> 
> The system boots, and seems to be OK.
> 
> The 9.1-Release kernel does not contain the mps module, so the above 
> installs it, and the probe finds it as it should.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> Karl Dunn
> kdunn at acm.org
> 
> For reference, this message was the last of a thread posted 2012-May-21:
> 
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:27:50 -0500
>> From: Efra?n D?ctor <efraindector at motumweb.com>
>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200
>> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
>> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.net>
>> Message-ID: <2C8021092BC947138DAE0EADF1A2C0BB at CMOTUM25PC>
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>> 
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> From: Ollivier Robert
>> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:53 AM
>> To: Efra??n D??ctor
>> Cc: Ollivier Robert ; <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200
>> 
>> 
>> Le 21 mai 2012 ?? 16:51, Efra??n D??ctor <efraindector at motumweb.com> a 
>> ??crit
>> > Thanks for your answer, does anyone know if FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is
>> > compatible with PERC H200?.
>> 
>> It has been merge to stable/8 after 8.2-RELEASE so yes, mpt in 8.3 should
>> work
>> 
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> 
>> Cool, I'll give it a try. Thank you so much.
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