From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca
Cc: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsas with 3.1)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:16:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F295769.6070003@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202010742.07818.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
On 02/01/2012 03:42 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On Wed Feb 1, 2012, John Robinson wrote:
>> On 01/02/2012 14:03, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> I picked up a refurb IBM
>>>
>>> ServeRaid M1015 (aka: LSI 9220-8i) card. It arrived yesterday. Just have
>>> to wait and see why grub doesn't like it.
>>
>> When you find out, please let me know - I bought one via ebay, its
>> firmware was elderly and wouldn't let me put it in JBOD mode, after a
>> bit of googling I flashed it with IBM's latest firmware, then GRUB
>> thought my machine had no RAM in it. The card has been sitting in a box
>> since.
>
> Yeah, GRUB immediately throws an "out of memory. Aborted" error, its annoying,
> but I reported the issue on GRUB's bug tracker after talking to a guy in #grub
> on freenode. Hopefully someone looks at it soon. It appears it happens so
> early in grub's startup that it can't even output any debug info (I was asked
> to run: `grub-install --debug-image=all /dev/sdX`, and did so, I get debug
> output when the card is not installed, but absolutely nothing when it is
> installed.
>
From my experience the BIOS wouldn't present any disks in JBOD mode.
So you'd be needing to switch to RAID mode first.
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca
Cc: John Robinson <john.robinson@anonymous.org.uk>,
linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsas with 3.1)
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:16:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F295769.6070003@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202010742.07818.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
On 02/01/2012 03:42 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On Wed Feb 1, 2012, John Robinson wrote:
>> On 01/02/2012 14:03, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> I picked up a refurb IBM
>>>
>>> ServeRaid M1015 (aka: LSI 9220-8i) card. It arrived yesterday. Just have
>>> to wait and see why grub doesn't like it.
>>
>> When you find out, please let me know - I bought one via ebay, its
>> firmware was elderly and wouldn't let me put it in JBOD mode, after a
>> bit of googling I flashed it with IBM's latest firmware, then GRUB
>> thought my machine had no RAM in it. The card has been sitting in a box
>> since.
>
> Yeah, GRUB immediately throws an "out of memory. Aborted" error, its annoying,
> but I reported the issue on GRUB's bug tracker after talking to a guy in #grub
> on freenode. Hopefully someone looks at it soon. It appears it happens so
> early in grub's startup that it can't even output any debug info (I was asked
> to run: `grub-install --debug-image=all /dev/sdX`, and did so, I get debug
> output when the card is not installed, but absolutely nothing when it is
> installed.
>
>From my experience the BIOS wouldn't present any disks in JBOD mode.
So you'd be needing to switch to RAID mode first.
Cheers,
Hannes
--
Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage
hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg
GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-01 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 18:44 mvsas with 3.1 Thomas Fjellstrom
2012-01-17 3:00 ` mvsas with 3.1 (mdraid+xfs locked up, single drive w/xfs not locked up) Thomas Fjellstrom
2012-01-17 3:55 ` Brad Campbell
2012-02-01 9:01 ` mvsas with 3.1 Simon McNair
2012-02-01 14:03 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2012-02-01 14:38 ` GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsas with 3.1) John Robinson
2012-02-01 14:42 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2012-02-01 15:16 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2012-02-01 15:16 ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-02-01 15:22 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2012-02-01 15:27 ` John Robinson
2012-02-02 3:02 ` Brad Campbell
2012-02-02 4:04 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2012-02-26 12:57 ` Solved (for me at least!) GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i John Robinson
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