[OmniOS-discuss] OmniOs install fails on dell R820

[Eric Sproul]

Ram,
When I went back to look at the bloody release, which was from
2012-11-07, I realized that the LSI 2208 fix in mr_sas was integrated
with OmniOS the day *after* that snapshot.  :(  I've made a new bloody
ISO based on the most recent snapshot (2012-12-28), which I'm sure
contains the #3178 fix.  Could you try that on your R820 server and
let us know whether it works better?

Thanks,
Eric

On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:
> Ram,
> You may not need to rebuild the ISO just yet, although maybe you have since
> your last message... Sometimes a driver may work fine for a given device if
> it's similar enough to others that are already supported, and all that's
> required is to get the driver to bind to the new device.  The update_drv(1M)
> command is what we use to modify driver configuration.  There are lots of
> examples on the web, but it would probably go something like:
>
> update_drv -a -i 'pciNNNN,NNNN' mr_sas
> update_drv -f mr_sas
>
> Where NNNN,NNNN is the pci vendor ID and device ID.  You can get those by
> picking through the output of 'prtconf -pv' and looking for a string like
> 'Serial Attached'.  I took a quick look at our pci.ids file for the 710
> specifically:
>
> # gzgrep H710 /usr/share/pci.ids.gz
>                 1028 1f30  PERC H710 Embedded
>                 1028 1f31  PERC H710P Adapter
>                 1028 1f33  PERC H710P Mini (for blades)
>                 1028 1f34  PERC H710P Mini (for monolithics)
>                 1028 1f35  PERC H710 Adapter
>                 1028 1f37  PERC H710 Mini (for blades)
>                 1028 1f38  PERC H710 Mini (for monolithics)
>
> That might give you a leg up.  I've also made a note to add the lspci
> utility to the ISO and Kayak miniroots, since that's useful in cases like
> yours.
>
> Eric
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Ram Chander <ramquick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Tried "bloody" ISO too but still same error.
>> I  have downloaded a driver from below and want to include it in a  ISO -
>> any idea how to include this and rebuild ISO ?
>>
>> http://blog.infrageeks.com/
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Eric Sproul <esproul at omniti.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Ram Chander <ramquick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I have 8 disks in Raid0 in Dell Poweredge R820.  It has Perc H710 raid
>>> > card.
>>> > When I tried to install latest Omnios,  it fails with below error.  It
>>> > fails
>>> > to recognize any disks.
>>> >
>>> > "OmniOS cannot be installed on any disk"
>>> >
>>> > Any pointers on how to get drivers fixed and install OmniOs ?
>>>
>>> Hi Ram,
>>> I believe the H710 is a Dell-branded LSI 2208-based card.  Support for
>>> the 2208 is a recent integration in illumos
>>> (https://www.illumos.org/issues/3178), so can you try the unstable
>>> ("bloody") ISO instead?  I believe the fix for issue 3178 didn't
>>> integrate until after our most recent stable release.
>>>
>>> Eric
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>>
>>
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