Re: gptzfsboot error using HP Smart Array P410i Controller

From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen_at_pingpong.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:54:58 +0100
10 jan 2013 kl. 18:15 skrev John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>:

> On Wednesday, January 09, 2013 05:57:06 PM Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> Palle Girgensohn skrev:
>>> Hi!
>>> 
>>> This is still happening with FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE, as I have just
>>> discovered. The hack works like a charm, but seems kind of odd... :)
>>> 
>>> Any progress in getting a "real" fix into the repository? Any risks
>>> with the hack - is it likely to believe that it will suddenly or
>>> sporadically fail?
>>> 
>>> Cheers, Palle
>>> 
>>> Christoph Hoffmann skrev:
>>>> Hello Daniel,
>>>> 
>>>> Last time I checked up on the issue was on the 23rd of September,
>>>> it was not fixed then. I was able to to boot from drive 0x80 after
>>>> adding:
>>>> 
>>>> *** zfsboot.c.orig    Fri Sep 23 18:03:26 2011 --- zfsboot.c    Fri Sep
>>>> 23 18:47:44 2011 *************** *** 459,464 **** --- 459,465 ----
>>>> heap_end = (char *) PTOV(bios_basemem); }
>>>> 
>>>> +    printf("Hello! I am a hack.\n"); dsk = malloc(sizeof(struct
>>>> dsk)); dsk->drive = *(uint8_t *)PTOV(ARGS); dsk->type = dsk->drive
>>>> & DRV_HARD ? TYPE_AD : TYPE_FD;
>>>> 
>>>> I am inclined to think that this is related to the way how we
>>>> compile this code, especially when run on the following particular
>>>> processor:
>>>> 
>>>> 1 Processor(s) detected, 4 total cores enabled, Hyperthreading is
>>>> enabled Proc 1: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5630 _at_ 2.53GHz QPI Speed: 5.8
>>>> GT/s.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Christoph
>>>> 
>>>> On Oct 11, 2011, at 3:16 PM, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
>>>>> Has this issue been resolved somehow? Sane method to build
>>>>> gptzfsboot that will run on HP's P410i?
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This is still happening with 9.2-RELEASE on a HP DL 380 G5:
> 
> Presumably 9.1?
> 
>> gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 32
>> gptzfsboot: error 1 lba 1
>> gptzfsboot: No ZFS pools located, can't boot
>> 
>> Andriy suggested the latest sys/boot/i386/common/edd.h_at_243024 from head,
>> but unfortunately it makes no difference.
>> 
>> The printf hack above still works fine though.
> 
> Do you have avg's most recent commit to edd.h to pack various structures?  I'm 
> not sure that made it into 9.1.
> 

9.1, of course, sorry! :-)

Yes, I've built a fresh gptzfsboot  using 9.1 + edd.h from head (with _packed keywords added). 
Received on Thu Jan 10 2013 - 20:55:09 UTC

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