From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 25 09:41:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AE8106564A for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jau@jau.iki.fi) Received: from jau.iki.fi (ip193-64-26-117.cust.eunet.fi [193.64.26.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A57E8FC08 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:41:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jau.iki.fi (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jau.iki.fi (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id p8P9G4e8044129 for ; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:16:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from jau@jau.iki.fi) Received: (from jau@localhost) by jau.iki.fi (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id p8P9G4jg044128 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:16:04 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from jau) Message-Id: <201109250916.p8P9G4jg044128@jau.iki.fi> To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:16:04 +0300 (EEST) From: jau@iki.fi (Jukka A. Ukkonen) Sender: jau@iki.fi Latin-Date: dies Solis XXV Septembrie a.d. MMXI Organization: Private person OS-Platform: FreeBSD Phone: +358-9-6215280 (home) / +358-500-606671 (gsm) Content-Conversion: prohibited X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25+pgp] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (jau.iki.fi [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:16:04 +0300 (EEST) Cc: Subject: Installing FreeBSD 9 on an AMD 64 with 16 GB of memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jau@iki.fi List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:41:47 -0000 Greetings all, I grabbed the FreeBSD-9.0 beta 2 AMD 64 DVD1 intending to use it for installing FreeBSD 9 on a system with 2 AMD 4162 EE CPUs and 16 GB of physical memory. Booting proceeded as expected to the point when CD loader 1.2 was found and the little rotor started running in the beginning of the line. >From that moment on there was absolutely no progress. So, I tried also with the AMD64 install CD and with the i386 install CD, but the results were no better. Initially I had the LSI SAS RAID controller providing a 278 GB HW mirrored storage volume. Guessing that the HW mirror might be for some reason confusing the loader I deleted the HW mirror setup showing the actual Seagate SAS disks to the system. Still there was no progress after the CD loader started. After getting a bit frustrated I tried Ubuntu 11.04 boot CD and there was no problem at all booting the system. Ubuntu brought the whole system including X11 up with no sign of difficulty. Only then it started to dawn to me - the CD loader must be somehow getting out of its mind when there is 16 GB of memory. Are there any known problems with the CD loader 1.2 and large physical memories? Are there any known ways to work around this annoyance? A summary of the HW environment: 2*AMD 4162 EE @ 1,7 GHz with 6 cores each 16 GB EEC DDR3 2*279GB SAS disk storage LSI HW RAID controller Any hints and pointers about what to try next would be welcome. Cheers, // jau .--- ..- -.- -.- .- .- .-.-.- ..- -.- -.- --- -. . -. / Jukka A. Ukkonen, Oxit Ltd, Finland /__ M.Sc. (sw-eng & cs) (Phone) +358-500-606-671 / Internet: Jukka.Ukkonen(a)Oxit.Fi / Internet: jau(a)iki.fi v .--- .- ..- ...-.- .. -.- .. .-.-.- ..-. .. + + + + My opinions are mine and mine alone, not my employers. + + + +