From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Robinson Subject: Solved (for me at least!) GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:57:27 +0000 Message-ID: <4F4A2C37.3090500@anonymous.org.uk> References: <201201131144.58044.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> <201202010703.09833.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> <4F294E64.10204@anonymous.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F294E64.10204@anonymous.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca Cc: Simon McNair , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , ayan@marvell.com, andy yan , linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 01/02/2012 14:38, 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. RHEL/CentOS 5's GRUB is buggy, in that it doesn't always read the whole of the BIOS's memory map. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445893 and in particular comment 7 where there's a link to a replacement GRUB which incorporates the patch that was first offered to Red Hat in July 2007. The issue likely affects other distros GRUBs too, since GRUB is moribund. Cheers, John.