mps has been in FreeBSD for years surely older than 9.1 are you
sure you have a generic kernel?
Regards
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Dunn" <kdunn at acm.org>
To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200
>I got a Dell T110-II server on 2013-July-19. It has two 1Tbyte drives
> that the PERC H200 controls, RAID 1. I tried to install
> FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE from a DVD from FreebsdMall. The autopart segfaulted,
> evidently because it could not find any disks. I think there is a PR
> about the segfaulting (bad bug, no messages).
>
> I worked around the problem by going to the loader prompt when the initial
> boot choice screen came up; it's option 2. I gave the commands:
>
> load mps.ko
> boot
>
> Install went fine. I had to create (last bsdinstall screen, shell option)
> the file /boot/loader.conf, containing the single line:
>
> mps_load="YES"
>
> The system boots, and seems to be OK.
>
> The 9.1-Release kernel does not contain the mps module, so the above
> installs it, and the probe finds it as it should.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Karl Dunn
> kdunn at acm.org
>
> For reference, this message was the last of a thread posted 2012-May-21:
>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:27:50 -0500
>> From: Efra?n D?ctor <efraindector at motumweb.com>
>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200
>> To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
>> Cc: Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.net>
>> Message-ID: <2C8021092BC947138DAE0EADF1A2C0BB at CMOTUM25PC>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8";
>> reply-type=original
>>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> From: Ollivier Robert
>> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 10:53 AM
>> To: Efra??n D??ctor
>> Cc: Ollivier Robert ; <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and PERC H200
>>
>>
>> Le 21 mai 2012 ?? 16:51, Efra??n D??ctor <efraindector at
motumweb.com> a
>> ??crit
>> > Thanks for your answer, does anyone know if FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE is
>> > compatible with PERC H200?.
>>
>> It has been merge to stable/8 after 8.2-RELEASE so yes, mpt in 8.3
should
>> work
>>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>>
>> Cool, I'll give it a try. Thank you so much.
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