Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756607Ab2BAP1c (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:27:32 -0500 Received: from mail.yuiop.co.uk ([89.145.97.74]:46282 "EHLO mail.yuiop.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753664Ab2BAP1b (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:27:31 -0500 Message-ID: <4F2959FA.70101@anonymous.org.uk> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:27:54 +0000 From: John Robinson Organization: None; Disorganization: Total User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hannes Reinecke CC: thomas@fjellstrom.ca, 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> <4F295769.6070003@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <4F295769.6070003@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1325 Lines: 32 On 01/02/2012 15:16, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > 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. [...] > > 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/