Re: Problems with FreeBSD on Poweredge 6300

From: Eric Anderson <anderson_at_centtech.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:44:35 -0600
Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have this same issue - Jung-uk Kim (jkim (at) niksun.com) sent me a
>>patch, that made my life better  (below).  Something with the PERC
>>controllers.  The only problem for me, was that I have a root partition
>>on the PERC controller, so I can't boot up to patch it.  Anyway, there
>>are ways to get the job done, but in the end, after sending emails to
>>various people with no response, I put RedFat on it.  I wish I could
>>have gone with FreeBSD, but I can't have a server that takes me 3 hours
>>to get rebuilt.  Here's the patch he sent, maybe it will help you.
> 
> 
> Hm, looks like passthrough disks, i.e., those not attached to an array
> container, cause some problems for amr. Try disconnecting any drives you
> don't have assigned to an array from the controller and see if you can
> boot then.

I had all disks in both disk arrays assigned to logical drives.  If I 
used the onboard controller with a single scsi drive, and had no drive 
arrays connected to the PERC, then it booted.

Eric


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