Incorrect geometry with 750G ciss array

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:55:37PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote:
> 
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:18 AM, Ivan Voras wrote:
> 
> >Kevin Day wrote:
> >>ciss0: <HP Smart Array E200> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem
> >>0xdef80000-0xdeffffff,0xdef78000-0xdef7ffff irq 35 at device 8.0 on  
> >>pci5
> >>ciss0: [ITHREAD]
> >>da0: 762977MB (1562578608 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 65535C)
> >>
> >>Sysinstall's partition editor comes up with 97266/255/63, but it
> >>re-complains that it's incorrect after every single keypress in it.  
> >>If I
> >>push ahead anyway, I can't boot (hang after pressing F1 at the  
> >>loader).
> >>
> >I don't know about that specific model, but I had similar symptoms  
> >with
> >several Proliants, some of which had the same ciss card, some not,  
> >which
> >are solved by using a different boot loader (i.e. the partitioning is
> >fine, just the boot loader isn't). Try sysutils/extipl, search the
> >mailing list archives for details.
> 
> That was exactly it, but I solved the problem a slightly different  
> way. Instead of selecting BootMgr after partitioning, I just installed  
> the standard MBR. That seems to find the partition just fine, and the  
> system boots okay.
> 
> I'll have to do some more digging to see what BootMgr's problem is.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Kevin

The other thing I have done with HP servers is just make a small system
disk, i.e. enough for root and maybe swap, then make another raid (Logical
disk or LD in SmartArray terms) for the rest of the system.

-- 
Regards, Ulf.

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