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

[Tom Sylla]

This is all a bit fuzzy now, but this is what I recall: The HT1000
SATA controller can also be configured as a PATA/IDE device. It will
show up as 024B instead of 024A when it is configured that way:

http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1166/024b

The mechanism to do the switch is in the HT1000 (BCM5785) databook,
which no one probably has access to. If you can get it into that mode,
legacy IDE access should work.

For the "native" mode, there should be an option ROM to give int13
replies. If you want to program it in SATA mode, there is a Linux
driver for reference (it is not AHCI). The option ROM is probably
easiest. You might want to ask the HT COE guys (the originators of the
DL145 code) to see how they were booting.

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:
> Hi Jay,
>
> I'm CC'ing the list.
>
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 05:22:19PM -0500, jarray52 jarray52 wrote:
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> Here is the output of lspci -vvv.
>>
>> http://coreboot.pastebin.com/PxF6JdKT
>>
>> Currently, there is one SATA hard disk attached to an on board SATA
>> connector. The machine does not have any other hard drives attached. The LSI
>> SAS controller has been removed from the HP Proliant dl 145 g3 server.
>
> Thanks.  The lspci shows:
>
> 01:0e.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom BCM5785 [HT1000] SATA (Native SATA Mode) (prog-if 05)
>
> So, the device doesn't use a standard class code.  Does anyone know if
> it accepts standard ATA or AHCI commands?  If so, SeaBIOS could be
> hardcoded to try and use the device.
>
>> I sent two E-mails to the mailing list. The other E-mail I sent to the
>> mailing list contains the errors when the LSI SAS controller is attached.
>
> The second email - the one with the SAS controller - did not have
> debug level set to 8.
>
> -Kevin
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jay
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin at koconnor.net> 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.
>> >
>> > Can you post the output of lspci and identify which device you
>> > expected to boot from?
>> >
>> > -Kevin
>> >
>
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