Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:27:21 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Kevin Day <kevin@your.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Incorrect geometry with 750G ciss array Message-ID: <20080426002720.GR26105@evil.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <38ED2269-C6CA-4BDF-8ADA-E669DFD3390E@your.org> References: <E067D11F-9DC3-4DF1-83E8-3F7ECBCE8988@your.org> <fupfol$g94$1@ger.gmane.org> <38ED2269-C6CA-4BDF-8ADA-E669DFD3390E@your.org>
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:55:37PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:18 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > > >Kevin Day wrote: > >>ciss0: <HP Smart Array E200> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem > >>0xdef80000-0xdeffffff,0xdef78000-0xdef7ffff irq 35 at device 8.0 on > >>pci5 > >>ciss0: [ITHREAD] > >>da0: 762977MB (1562578608 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C) > >> > >>Sysinstall's partition editor comes up with 97266/255/63, but it > >>re-complains that it's incorrect after every single keypress in it. > >>If I > >>push ahead anyway, I can't boot (hang after pressing F1 at the > >>loader). > >> > >I don't know about that specific model, but I had similar symptoms > >with > >several Proliants, some of which had the same ciss card, some not, > >which > >are solved by using a different boot loader (i.e. the partitioning is > >fine, just the boot loader isn't). Try sysutils/extipl, search the > >mailing list archives for details. > > That was exactly it, but I solved the problem a slightly different > way. Instead of selecting BootMgr after partitioning, I just installed > the standard MBR. That seems to find the partition just fine, and the > system boots okay. > > I'll have to do some more digging to see what BootMgr's problem is. > > Thanks! > > -- Kevin The other thing I have done with HP servers is just make a small system disk, i.e. enough for root and maybe swap, then make another raid (Logical disk or LD in SmartArray terms) for the rest of the system. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://www.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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