Re: GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsas with 3.1)
From: Thomas Fjellstrom <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-01 15:22:20
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On Wed Feb 1, 2012, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
On 02/01/2012 03:42 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:quoted
On Wed Feb 1, 2012, John Robinson wrote:quoted
On 01/02/2012 14:03, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: [...]quoted
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.
It does seem to notice them all in its own bios, and list them in JBOD mode. But the disks aren't used for booting, so at the very least it shouldn't affect booting at all. But I'll try that out anyhow to see if it "fixes" GRUB.
Cheers, Hannes
-- Thomas Fjellstrom thomas@fjellstrom.ca