From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hannes Reinecke 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 Message-ID: <4F295769.6070003@suse.de> References: <201201131144.58044.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> <201202010703.09833.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> <4F294E64.10204@anonymous.org.uk> <201202010742.07818.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201202010742.07818.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca Cc: John Robinson , linux-raid , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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. >=20 > Yeah, GRUB immediately throws an "out of memory. Aborted" error, its = annoying,=20 > but I reported the issue on GRUB's bug tracker after talking to a guy= in #grub=20 > on freenode. Hopefully someone looks at it soon. It appears it happen= s so=20 > early in grub's startup that it can't even output any debug info (I w= as asked=20 > to run: `grub-install --debug-image=3Dall /dev/sdX`, and did so, I ge= t debug=20 > output when the card is not installed, but absolutely nothing when it= is=20 > installed. >=20 =46rom 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 --=20 Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imend=F6rffer, HRB 16746 (AG N=FCrnberg)