ZFS RAID drive cannot be cloned - no foreign configuration found

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dkline201

I have been working through the problems with this new DELL R450 15th Generation system. The system uses a new LSI 3916 Trimode chipset (also sold by SuperMicro as MegaRAID). I am now able to create a bootable FreeBSD 13.1-RC2 OS boot drive on the R450 by ‘pre-configuring the RAID0 drive’, and moving that back to the previous R740 14th Gen system for re-imaging with ZFS, and booted with ‘mfsbsd 13.0’. (‘mfsbsd13.0’ does not boot the R450. I am guessing that ‘mfsbsd 13.1’ will reflect the changes in FBSD 13.1 once it is formally RELEASED?) But my good 13.1-RC2 boot drive cannot be duplicated to a new drive unless I ‘pre-configure’ the RAID0 before duplicating on my old OmniSAS. So it would seem that the DELL 14th Gen is not finding the RAID info on bootup. Normally, it should ask to import the ‘foreign’ drive. But that RAID configuration cannot be found. The only option is to reconfigure the RAID0, which unfortunately WIPES the data on the drive. Should this problem be reported to the proper persons who build this FBSD? (I do not know the process to report that.) I have noticed there is now an RC4 scheduled, before the 13.1-RELEASE builds…
 
dkline201 said:
Should this problem be reported to the proper persons who build this FBSD?
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Issue has nothing to do with FreeBSD. You have two different brands of RAID controllers. Every brand has it's own metadata format, so a RAID configuration from brand A cannot be read/understood by brand B.
 
Yes, I should not have posted this here. Frustration with this new RAID setup clouded my judgement. The RAID controllers ARE both Broadcom brand. But the RAID formats have changed. So we will be making two FreeBSD 13.1 boot sets, one for DELL 14G and earlier, and one for DELL 15G and forward.
 
If I understand right you have a zfs volume on a "HW-RAID0" ?
You can transfer with this (in the example via an intermediate drive to keep the backup)

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I need to modify a MFSBSD13.1 USB to boot up with a STATIC IP address. There is no DHCP server on the destination network between the image storage system (already at a static IP) and the target (to be imaged) system. So far, I have not found documentation on a way to do this. Can I boot MFSBSD13.0 on 'my' network which does have DHCP, and then go to the network setup to change it to the correct destination network STATIC IP?
 
Hoping this will work. I booted MFSBSD13.0 USB, went into the 'rc.conf' file and set up static IP address for the Broadcom NIC (which I don't have here). I am thinking that MFSBSD will see the Broadcom NIC, and assign that STATIC IP as it boots up instead of looking for DHCP for the IP. Will know tomorrow when support is on site.
 
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