From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 18:58:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED00B16A40F; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:58:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: from mail.alameda.net (mail.alameda.net [64.81.53.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B56143CA0; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 18:57:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulf@alameda.net) Received: by mail.alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EE9D733D73; Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:58:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:58:02 -0800 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Robert Watson Message-ID: <20061209185802.GT98520@evil.alameda.net> References: <4578E1AD.3090505@isc.org> <457A9DA0.1020601@alvorlig.dk> <20061209114555.A2273@fledge.watson.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061209114555.A2273@fledge.watson.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-ANI-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ANI-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ANI-MailScanner-From: ulf@alameda.net Cc: "J. Martin Petersen" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter_Losher@isc.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 (or 7) on a HP DL140 G3 SATA X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:58:07 -0000 On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:47:21AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, J. Martin Petersen wrote: > I have two HP DL145 G3's, and I had identical crashes in the loader when > using the amd64 loader on an older BIOS revision. Upgrading the BIOS made > the problem go away. Upgrading proved to be a bit of a pain because the > boxes don't have CDROM or floppy drives, and the HP firmware updater > download is rather weird, but once it was updated (using a USB floppy > drive) all was happiness. Oddly, the i386 loader had no problem at all... Here is how I update the bios on DL140. Create a DOS boot disk (I usual use 6.22), put a ramdisk driver on it and whatever you need to flash the bios. Then make an image of the disk and load it into your pxe server. Boot via PXE said floppy image, copy BIOS flash utils and firmware to ramdisk. Then run software from there. If you don't use the ram disk, I have seen it fail often. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html