linux-kernel - Re: GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsas with 3.1)

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Date:	Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:16:57 +0100
From:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:	thomas@...llstrom.ca
Cc:	John Robinson <john.robinson@...nymous.org.uk>,
	linux-raid <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB doesn't like ServeRAID M1015/LSI 9220-8i (was Re: mvsas
 with 3.1)

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. 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.

Cheers,

Hannes
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