Per subject, has abyone sucessfully used b99 with HP hardware? I''ve been using opensolaris for some time on HP Blade. Installing from os200805 back in June works fine, with the caveat that I had to manually add cpqary3 driver (v 1.90 was available back then). After installation, I regulary upgrade with "pkg image-update". In general it works fine except for some warnings about cpqary3 on boot. However, upgrading to b99 doesn''t work (it hangs on boot, perhaps something to do with cpqary3). I was able to revert back to the previous installation (b98). After that, I decided to upgrade my zpool (b98 has zpool v13). Surprise, surpise, the system now doesn''t boot at all. Apparently I got hit by this "bug" : http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/ZFS_rpool_Upgrade_and_GRUB The recovery procedure involve booting from CD/DVD. Thinking that perhaps HP''s update would solve cpqary3 problem, I tried adding cpqary3 v 1.91 to osol-0811-99.iso. Still didn''t work. So I tried original os200805 and b96. Doesn''t work due to to zpool version (I should''ve seen this one coming). I''m trying b98 now, wish me luck :-P . Regards, Fajar -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3242 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20081104/bc7d5347/attachment.bin>
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:> After that, I decided to upgrade my zpool (b98 has zpool v13). Surprise, > surpise, the system now doesn''t boot at all. Apparently I got hit by > this "bug" : > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/ZFS_rpool_Upgrade_and_GRUB > >b98 CD works as expected. I made a little change to http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/ZFS_rpool_Upgrade_and_GRUB : update_grub needs "-R /mnt" when booting from CD.> The recovery procedure involve booting from CD/DVD. Thinking that > perhaps HP''s update would solve cpqary3 problem, I tried adding cpqary3 > v 1.91 to osol-0811-99.iso.v1.91 apparently fixed warnings about driver byte alignment. I''m using it now on b98. It still doesn''t work on b99 and 100. Regards, Fajar -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3242 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20081105/e2e40009/attachment.bin>
Hi, I''ve got similar problem. I''m trying to install Opensolaris on HP blade 460c. My problem is that the newest version (snv_103) hangs during boot. After reading your post I started testing old version and..... Every installation up to snv_98 is ok, snv_99 and newer hangs. As I''m using original installation cds from genunix where there is no cpqary3 driver inside I don''t think it is related to Smart Array driver problems. I think it is something wrong in the kernel ??? BTW how do you load the cpq driver during installation phase??? Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
OK, In the end I managed to install OpenSolaris snv_101b on hp blade on smart array drive directly from install cd. Everything is fine. The problems I experienced with hangs on boot on snv_99+ is related to Qlogic driver, but this is a different story. Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
sim wrote:> OK, > > In the end I managed to install OpenSolaris snv_101b on hp blade on smart array drive directly from install cd. Everything is fine. The problems I experienced with hangs on boot on snv_99+ is related to Qlogic driver, but this is a different story. > >Hi Simon, Your symptoms is very similar to mine. Can you tell me how you solve the qlogic problem? My server also has qlogic FC cards, not connected to anything right now (disks are on HP smart array). Regards, Fajar -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3242 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20081209/f4a9568e/attachment.bin>
Ok, In my situation qlogic cannot get insync on second FC port (I can see it on switch). If you want just bypass loading of qcl driver, before booting the system add in grub this: -B disable-qlc=true (in line starting with kernel ...) On my server, without qlc driver everything works fine. Simon -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Fajar A. Nugraha
2008-Dec-17 02:43 UTC
[zfs-discuss] HP Smart Array and b99, opensolaris 2008.11 and qlogic problems?
(CC-ing both lists, since I post the question to both under different subject) sim wrote:> Ok, > > In my situation qlogic cannot get insync on second FC port (I can see it on switch). > If you want just bypass loading of qcl driver, before booting the system add in grub this: > > -B disable-qlc=true > > (in line starting with kernel ...) > > On my server, without qlc driver everything works fine. > >THANK YOU! By disabling qlc, I can finally boot opensolaris 2008.11. It brings up several question though. (1) How did you get your server working with qlc? Is your boot partition on local disk or on qlc SAN? (2) Is this (opensolaris and qlc) a known-not-work-configuration or is there a howto that I need to follow? (3) On 2008.11, coreadm service failed to start. Anyone else experiencing this behaviour? svc:/system/coreadm:default (system-wide core file configuration) State: maintenance since Wed Dec 17 09:09:09 2008 Reason: Start method failed repeatedly, last exited with status 127. See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M coreadm See: /var/svc/log/system-coreadm:default.log Impact: This service is not running. It was OK on 2008.05. Looking at the log, [ Dec 17 09:09:09 Executing start method ("/lib/svc/method/svc-coreadm start"). ] /sbin/sh[1]: exec: /lib/svc/method/svc-coreadm: not found [ Dec 17 09:09:09 Method "start" exited with status 127. ] seems like this service shouldn''t exists on 2008.11, and I can safely disable it, right? Regards, Fajar -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3242 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/attachments/20081217/76f14995/attachment.bin>