On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 14:59 -0800, Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Hi, > > When installing 9.0 RC1 on our HP servers, we of course wanted to use gpt intead of fdisk. However, it doesn't work. > > First I tried gptzfsboot, it failed with an error (see this thread: > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026175.html) > > Second, I tried a standard gptboot, it just goes into a boot loop. > > Seriously, we have a couple of idle machines with ciss(4) and an iLO (for remote connections). If someone has the knowledge and time to try and fix the problems with ciss and gpt boot, we have the equipment for it. > > We tried with a standard vanilla zpool, no mirror or raid at all, on top of a ciss raid-5, and it failed with RC1. [trying RC2 now, but seems nothing is changed?]. > > Anyone up to the task of finding this culprit, we can let you into the machine remotely through the iLO. Please let me know. > > Best reagards > Palle Girgensohn I just got done with an HP DL160G6 with a P410 raid-5 configuration in the freebsd.org cluster. I definitely had to use RC2 due to some type of disk issue. I suspect that http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=227400 fixed it. SeanReceived on Wed Nov 23 2011 - 00:21:05 UTC
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