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


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