Re: GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsaswith 3.1)

From: John Robinson
Date: Wed Feb 01 2012 - 10:27:30 EST


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.
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