From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756556Ab2BAPRB (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:17:01 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45947 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753722Ab2BAPQ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:16:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4F295769.6070003@suse.de> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:16:57 +0100 From: Hannes Reinecke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: thomas@fjellstrom.ca Cc: John Robinson , linux-raid , linux-kernel@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) References: <201201131144.58044.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> <201202010703.09833.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> <4F294E64.10204@anonymous.org.uk> <201202010742.07818.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> In-Reply-To: <201202010742.07818.thomas@fjellstrom.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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)