Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 12:51:53 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Proliant DL320 Gen8 Mk2 - 'virtual CD boot' fails with error 19? Message-ID: <F56BEDA1A22CA12BA71C69A8@[10.12.30.106]>
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Hi All, Does anyone know a way of persuading Proliant G8's to boot off of an ILO virtual CD? We've used this for a while to install FreeBSD at remote locations (e.g. via Supermicro's IPMI - and early ILO versions) - but the G8's we're using now fail... i.e. Log into ILO - start a console session, 'attach' an ISO to the virtual CDROM - boot the server. This seems to go fine until the mountroot point - where we get: Trying to mount root from [blah] []... mountroot: waiting for device [blah] Mounting from [blah] failed with error 19. We also see a number of: (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0) CAM status: CCB request completed with an error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0) Retrying command (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0) INQUIRY. CDB: 12 00 01 00 00 [blah] is some path to the CDROM - you can retry it with 'cd9660:/dev/acd0' - but that nets the same error. '?' at the mountroot point shows the local hard drive partitions - but no CDROM device I can see. So it looks like at the cross over point from 'BIOS' calls to access the CD to the kernel's drivers, something isn't happy. If you repeat the process a *large number of times* (e.g. several in a row) - it will finally 'catch' and work - but the rest of the time you just get this error. Can anyone think of anything that can be tweaked to get this working a bit more reliably? Thanks, -Karl
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