Re: GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsas with 3.1)
From: John Robinson <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-01 15:27:32
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On 01/02/2012 15:16, 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.
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From my experience the BIOS wouldn't present any disks in JBOD mode. So you'd be needing to switch to RAID mode first.
The firmware my card came with didn't have a JBOD mode, which is why I flashed the newer firmware. Then I could boot in JBOD mode from a rescue CD and see some drives, though not those that had had RAID-mode metadata written to them, but I couldn't boot the system with GRUB (from drives on another controller). Cheers, John.