settings for HP raid controller

[Rob Crommentuijn]

The problem with this setting for me is, that I have to recreate the 
entire array (on some of the hp smartarray controllers) before changing 
this setting from 4 to 8gb (max boot enable).

So when i find out that the server won't boot , then I can insert the 
bootonly cd again and begin installing again.

Rob



kama <kama at pvp.se> 
08-05-2007 10:33

To
Rob Crommentuijn <RCrommentuijn at adimec.nl>
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freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
Subject
Re: settings for HP raid controller







I have never been forced to set it to 8GB on FreeBSD, but when I installed
Solaris 8 x86 on the same hardware I had to add it. But thats now aprox 6
years ago.

I dont think it will hurt to have them at 8GB and the 4GB is just a legacy
for some OSes that doesnt know about boot devices larger than 4GB. Like
some versions of DOS.

/Bjorn

On Fri, 4 May 2007, Rob Crommentuijn wrote:

> I have installed 2 HP proliant servers with 6.2 (ML380G5 and ML370G3). 
In
> order to get the systems to boot after the install was to set the 
"Maxboot
> setting to enable 8gb".
>
> Is anybody more seeing this behavior?
>
> The raid card are a HP 641 en P600 smart array controller with the 
newest
> firmware installed.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Rob Crommentuijn
> Systems and Network Administrator
> rcrommentuijn at adimec.nl
> Adimec Advanced Image Systems B.V.
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