23 nov 2011 kl. 02:20 skrev Sean Bruno <sean...@yahoo-inc.com>:

> On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 14:59 -0800, Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> When installing 9.0 RC1 on our HP servers, we of course wanted to use gpt 
>> intead of fdisk. However, it doesn't work.
>> 
>> First I tried gptzfsboot, it failed with an error (see this thread:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2011-August/026175.html)
>> 
>> Second, I tried a standard gptboot, it just goes into a boot loop.
>> 
>> Seriously, we have a couple of idle machines with ciss(4) and an iLO (for 
>> remote connections). If someone has the knowledge and time to try and fix 
>> the problems with ciss and gpt boot, we have the equipment for it.
>> 
>> We tried with a standard vanilla zpool, no mirror or raid at all, on top of 
>> a ciss raid-5, and it failed with RC1. [trying RC2 now, but seems nothing is 
>> changed?].
>> 
>> Anyone up to the task of finding this culprit, we can let you into the 
>> machine remotely through the iLO. Please let me know.
>> 
>> Best reagards
>> Palle Girgensohn
> 
> I just got done with an HP DL160G6 with a P410 raid-5 configuration in
> the freebsd.org cluster.  I definitely had to use RC2 due to some type
> of disk issue.  I suspect that
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=227400 fixed it.
> 
> Sean
> 

Thanks for the heads-up!

Hoping for rc2! :-)

Palle_______________________________________________
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