From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 21:38:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBC751065679 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:38:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mahlon@martini.nu) Received: from martini.nu (martini.nu [198.145.180.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99EB08FC23 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:38:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 50336 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Jul 2010 21:38:36 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:38:36 -0700 From: "Mahlon E. Smith" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100722213836.GH15227@martini.nu> Mail-Followup-To: "Mahlon E. Smith" , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="N8ia4yKhAKKETby7" Content-Disposition: inline X-GPG-Fingerprint: 19B8 DDB3 0156 3A03 FA80 8278 C0BE 6BFB 3606 B267 X-Sysinfo: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Subject: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:38:36 -0000 --N8ia4yKhAKKETby7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly appreciated, I'm chomping at the bit pretty hard to put this hardware to use, and was fairly surprised that FreeBSD didn't work on it through the gate. I've grabbed some screenshots from the DRAC, and dumped them here: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7234177/1/r810?h=3Df5fb1d (sorry, I realize that's not -incredibly- helpful and partially truncated. I'm currently limited to what I can screenshot, though I suppose I could boot via console and log it all... come to think of it, I'll go give that a try to get more comprehensive output.) If I disable all the CPU options in the BIOS, I can get it to boot, but it hangs after mounting md0 (I never see the sysinstall screen.) Same deal if I try booting in safe mode or without ACPI. Otherwise, it spews errors for about 30 seconds so quickly I can't read them, then panics with a page fault in swapper. I'm sure we'd like to get BSD installing reliably on such a beast, and I'm more than happy to play the guinea pig if someone would be willing to provide some direction with some things to try. Help! These are expensive paperweights! :) -- Mahlon E. Smith =20 http://www.martini.nu/contact.html --N8ia4yKhAKKETby7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFMSLpc1bsjBDapbeMRAuXpAKCEVjXCL3Sf0XGUje8/VTGM/hwCLQCdFfP7 OjtFTOayRFNXL8Lo7F7Dp50= =n3LD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --N8ia4yKhAKKETby7--