[coreboot] HP Proliant dl145 g3 Can't read Boot disk

[Alex G.]

On 02/21/2011 03:53 PM, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:26:30PM -0500, jarray52 jarray52 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> My HP Proliant dl145 g3 with Coreboot Bios and SeaBIOS payload cannot read
>> my hard disk. Here is the serial console output.
>>
>> http://coreboot.pastebin.com/HYee3u0t
>>
>> For easy reference, here is the coreboot page on the HP Proliant dl145 g3.
>>
>> http://www.coreboot.org/HP_DL145_G3
>>
>> To ensure the problem was not caused by an HP BIOS or the LSI SAS controller
>> raid initialization of hard drives, I used a hard drive with OS created on a
>> non HP(Asus) without either hardware or software raid. No hard drive with
>> boot sector was readable by coreboot/seabios.
> 
> The log shows SeaBIOS found an ATA controller, but did not find any
> drives attached to the controller.  It did not find an option rom on
> any cards - so no scsi option rom was run.
> 
He removed the SAS card from the system, as running its option ROM would
freeze the boot process. He has two SATA drives connected to the onboard
controller. Initially, I thought the error had to do with the fact that
the drives were in RAID, and the boot sector was offset, but he tried
with a non-RAID drive connected (with linux already installed), and the
result was the same.

The coreboot log does show the SATA controller to be initialized (if I
am reading it correctly).

PCI: 01:0e.0 [1166/024a] ops
PCI: 01:0e.0 [1166/024a] enabled
malloc Enter, size 68, free_mem_ptr 00150224
malloc 00150224
PCI: 01:0e.1 [1166/024a] ops
PCI: 01:0e.1 [1166/024a] enabled
POST: 0x25

The 1166:024a is the SATA controller.

> Can you post the output of lspci and identify which device you
> expected to boot from?
> 
Better lspci -nn ?


Alex