From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 05:20:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6499516A4E6 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 05:20:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB63C43D45 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 05:20:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kjelderg@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so137578pye for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:20:29 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=r4QhGAIpTjpjZxemv1EsW0LLMk2hcEalMPL609CHJTT+TK+edDWrqeI0wyfhOG32NeDj7pOFFKwpuCVSjfiaXmV6AE5vkDoTDLSCXntpDAbwCmW86QLJwX/JbSYNzQodE5hpJtGp+CMgNS2NYSKlRhcps5UEIzlYf99SPXn6J00= Received: by 10.35.96.11 with SMTP id y11mr552649pyl; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 22:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.108.4 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 22:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 05:20:28 +0000 From: "Eric Kjeldergaard" To: "FreeBSD Current" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: 6.1 install on a PowerEdge 6400 with AMR raid card X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:20:30 -0000 I found this problem on an archive of this list. http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/c6227c003f6817df/c720a6c7a55c807a%23c720a6c7a55c807a This is very similar to the problem I'm having with my 6.1 install. I set up a raid5 on my AMR card (an enterprise 1200 with 4 scsi discs) and booted up the installer. After partitioning the disks and labeling, choosing distributions, etc. I hit commit and it reliably stalled after adding part 2/30 from base. Strange behaviour, I thought. So I got around this by booting up with Freesbie and using that sysinstall after changing it to install 6.1-RELEASE but otherwise with the same steps all the way through. It worked well and I rebooted. And the OS wouldn't boot (some error regarding LBA). Trying to boot with grub also showed an error of similar sorts. It came to me that it may be the raid5 that was at fault for the booting issues so I quickly (as quickly as one can, at least) set the disks up in a raid10 and installed freebsd, but upon trying to do mountroot, it hangs leaving a mountroot prompt that cannot be typed into. Are there known issues with the MegaRaid Enterprise 1200 cards for booting FreeBSD? Are the passingly-mentioned patches already in the 6.1 tree? Does anyone have any recommendations of things that can be tried before I purchase another RAID card? -- If I write a signature, my emails will appear more personalised.