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Hi all,
this is not a TrueNAS system but plain FreeBSD, but the density of people "knowing this stuff" in this forum is quite high, so please permit me to give it a shot.
I suspect this to be the reason:
How can I tell the Avago HBA to present all 4 drives to the BIOS? Trying to invoke the builtin config utility via Ctrl-C leads to a system hanging with "DXE--Legacy OPROM Initialization.._" and no progress. The HBA does not offer to invoke the "WebBIOS" with Ctrl-H - probably intentionally because IT mode.
Thanks for any hints,
Patrick
this is not a TrueNAS system but plain FreeBSD, but the density of people "knowing this stuff" in this forum is quite high, so please permit me to give it a shot.
- Supermicro systems with onboard LSI/Avago SAS HBA
- HBA flashed to IT mode
- SATA SSDs connected and working
- Booting from a single mirror pool works fine
- As soon as there is more than the first disk necessary to read the kernel from the pool the system won't boot
- Independent of EFI or legacy boot - the boot loader starts fine, but cannot load the kernel

I suspect this to be the reason:

How can I tell the Avago HBA to present all 4 drives to the BIOS? Trying to invoke the builtin config utility via Ctrl-C leads to a system hanging with "DXE--Legacy OPROM Initialization.._" and no progress. The HBA does not offer to invoke the "WebBIOS" with Ctrl-H - probably intentionally because IT mode.
Thanks for any hints,
Patrick