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Recently one of my servers has crashed and on reboot I was greeted with the error message below:
Note that these steps apply only to my own configuration. Use with caution. Make a backup of your data before
using this information. I am not responsible if you lose any data.
1. Enter the LSI MegaRAID BIOS configuration utility. Press ALT-S, then RETURN.
2. You are now in the home screen of the LSI MegaRAID BIOS Config Utility. It should look similar to
this screenshot (if not, press ALT-D, then RETURN). Note that all my disks are in the state
"Unconfigured Bad" for some reason.
3. Press ALT-H, then select the first Unconfigured Bad disk drive by pressing the ARROW-DOWN key, then
RETURN.
4. You now see some information for the selected physical disk drive. Force the drive in the "Unconfigured
Good" state by pressing ALT-U, SPACE, ALT-G, then RETURN.
5. The next page is for setting some more disk drive attributes, which we don't need. Go back to the home
screen by pressing ALT-B, then RETURN.
6. Repeat this until all of your "Unconfigured Bad" drives are in the "Unconfigured Good" state. After that,
let the LSI MegaRAID controller re-scan all physical disk drives to read the configuration, which is
conveniently stored somewhere on each physical disk drive. Press ALT-S, then RETURN.
7. Hopefully, the Scan Devices command has recovered the RAID configuration. In my particular setup I
have four physical 500 GByte disk drives that are configured as one single RAID-10 virtual disk drive with
1 TByte capacity. I am not sure how this dialog looks like if there are more than one virtual disk drives
configured, if that is the case you need to continue on your own from here on. In case anything goes wrong
it is however possible to run the "Scan Devices" command again and try something different.
Anyway, if your configuration is similar to mine press ALT-P, then RETURN.
8. If the configuration could be read successfully from the devices, a preview dialog is displayed. The RAID
controller has successfully read the configuration which looks in fact exactly how the system was
configured earlier. Press ALT-I, then RETURN to import the configuration.
9. The LSI MegaRAID Controller has recovered its drive configuration. Everything looks good so far. You
can now restart the system: press ALT-X, then RETURN.
11. Finally, physically reset or power-cycle the system. This can't be done from the utility.
System is back!
After the reboot the RAID controller was in its previous state and the server could be started successfully.