Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 13:49:35 +1100 From: Malcolm Herbert <mjch@mjch.net> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: booting HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer from 2x3TB Toshiba disks? Message-ID: <1413773375.3926404.180886897.3E56F484@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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folks - I'm having great problems when attempting to get this host to boot FreeBSD from the internal disks. I have in the past run FreeNAS on it however the host was booting from an external USB thumbdrive as FreeNAS refuses to allow a disk to contain the OS as well as data (by my understanding) I did initially install FreeBSD 9.3 using the same USB drive and had that working OK with a ZFS mirror of the internal disks, however this was slow when fetching binaries via USB and in any event, the thumbdrive died completely a week or two ago. Since then I've tried installing 10.0 onto the two internal disks, selecting the experimental 'install to ZFS root' option however no combination of GPT/MBR or disk block sizes that I have tried so far has worked - I've also tried installing as a UFS root system just to completely explore the problem space but had no luck with that either ... I had the internal disks known to the array but not configured, and have also stepped through different SATA modes that the board offers to no avail. I do have some more information and photos of the console at home with the crash dump details but so far it's got me stumped. Has anyone else tried installation onto one of these units? Has anything like this occurred to others? I'm aiming to configure the host to boot from an encrypted ZFS root mirror ... Regards, Malcolm -- Malcolm Herbert mjch@mjch.net
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