I wanted to flag a potential issue with the IBM M1115.
I have an IBM M1115 that I cross flashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode. I could not get the board to boot on 3 different machines until taping the 5+6 pins. I then cross flashed it to a LSI 9211-8i IT mode. I wanted to use it to boot from on a small nas server with 4 drives.
I can get the card to boot, flash, configure etc. but cannot get it to boot from one of the connected HDD's even though the card recognises the HDD as a boot drive. At the point the card bios recognises and identifies the boot drive as being able to boot the system it says that the boot rom was successfully loaded and then it just sits there with that message on the screen.
All I can do at that point is reboot the machine. I have left it overnight thinking maybe it was some kind of time out to no avail.
If I boot the system from the network or CD etc. Linux sees the drive and can install to it etc. It is correctly recognised as a SAS2008 device using the MPT driver all seems well. If I just wanted to use the card for storage then it would be perfect. However I want to boot from a drive connected to it.
But I cannot boot any drive from it. I was hoping others had this issue. Do the taped pins have anything to do with booting capability of the cards? I know a lot of people just use these to provide mass storage and boot from other sources.
I have tried all combination of settings in the card. I have tried IT & IR mode with the mptsas2.rom, I tried disabling/enabling the interrupt etc.
It just gets to the point of booting and sits there. Disabling the BIOS on the card allows the system to boot through but of course not boot from any connected drive.
At this point I seem to be out of options. Many many hours spent on this already. I have other M1015 cards and Sun/Dell cards that all went perfectly. It currently has the pins taped to allow it to boot/flash etc. in my test machine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Spart
I have an IBM M1115 that I cross flashed to LSI 9211-8i IT mode. I could not get the board to boot on 3 different machines until taping the 5+6 pins. I then cross flashed it to a LSI 9211-8i IT mode. I wanted to use it to boot from on a small nas server with 4 drives.
I can get the card to boot, flash, configure etc. but cannot get it to boot from one of the connected HDD's even though the card recognises the HDD as a boot drive. At the point the card bios recognises and identifies the boot drive as being able to boot the system it says that the boot rom was successfully loaded and then it just sits there with that message on the screen.
All I can do at that point is reboot the machine. I have left it overnight thinking maybe it was some kind of time out to no avail.
If I boot the system from the network or CD etc. Linux sees the drive and can install to it etc. It is correctly recognised as a SAS2008 device using the MPT driver all seems well. If I just wanted to use the card for storage then it would be perfect. However I want to boot from a drive connected to it.
But I cannot boot any drive from it. I was hoping others had this issue. Do the taped pins have anything to do with booting capability of the cards? I know a lot of people just use these to provide mass storage and boot from other sources.
I have tried all combination of settings in the card. I have tried IT & IR mode with the mptsas2.rom, I tried disabling/enabling the interrupt etc.
It just gets to the point of booting and sits there. Disabling the BIOS on the card allows the system to boot through but of course not boot from any connected drive.
At this point I seem to be out of options. Many many hours spent on this already. I have other M1015 cards and Sun/Dell cards that all went perfectly. It currently has the pins taped to allow it to boot/flash etc. in my test machine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Spart