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 -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
