Bug 211001

Summary:	HP Proliant: BIOS problem with 3TB+ disks
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Julien Cigar <julien>
Component:	kern	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Many People	CC:	amd64, eugen, franz
Priority:	---	Keywords:	patch
Version:	11.0-RELEASE
Hardware:	amd64
OS:	Any
URL:	https://wiki.freebsd.org/HPBIOS3TBHDD

Description Julien Cigar 2016-07-11 09:46:50 UTC

I just installed a fresh 10.3-RELEASE on an HP Proliant MicroServer Gen8 and came across this issue https://wiki.freebsd.org/HPBIOS3TBHDD .. Apparently it was already discovered on 10.1-RELEASE but I can't find any bug report so I add this one. I have exactly the same error as in the wiki link and the patch seems to work here .. Would it be possible to merge it in the next release ? Thanks :)

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2016-07-13 17:53:25 UTC

See wiki page for patch.

Comment 2 Julien Cigar 2017-01-09 18:15:53 UTC

Just tried 11-RELEASE today and the problem is still there, the machine doesn't boot. Apparently it's an issue with the HP BIOS, but the following patch worked for 10 https://github.com/kuriyama/freebsd/compare/freebsd:stable/10...hp-bios-workaround-10.diff

Comment 3 Franz Bettag 2017-04-18 07:06:12 UTC

Maybe we could get this into base? I have a bunch of "these" HP Servers running FreeBSD and it's really time consuming to forget to cp zfsloader to /boot/ after running freebsd-update, and then having to remotely fix that (as all of them are a few hundred kilometers away).

Since i didn't see anything breaking on other systems, maybe this can be merged?

Comment 4 Eugene Grosbein freebsd_committer

2018-04-22 16:12:58 UTC

The patch has been committed to head as r331718 and has been MFC'd to stable/11 as r332056, prior to the release of 11.2.