From: Brad Campbell <brad@fnarfbargle.com>
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: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:02:10 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F29FCB2.6040204@fnarfbargle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201202010742.07818.thomas@fjellstrom.ca>
On 01/02/12 22:42, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
>
> 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.
Just another data point. I've seen this issue also. It does not appear to be GRUB's fault. It
appears the BIOS on the card does something funky as it also prevents syslinux/isolinux/pxelinux and
its friends from properly detecting/reporting the machines memory. Machine has 16GB but a PXE boot
believes it has 3GB.
I "worked around" the problem by swapping out the mainboard for a later model with a different BIOS
and the problem went away. Not pretty, but it was the only way I could get the machine to boot with
those cards in it. I have 4 IBM cards in 2 machines and they work fine here. I still have the dodgy
mainboard and can set it up if you need help testing/reproducing the issue.
Regards,
Brad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-02 3:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ 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
2012-02-01 15:22 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2012-02-01 15:27 ` John Robinson
2012-02-02 3:02 ` Brad Campbell [this message]
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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