From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 22:08:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 019DC16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:08:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.infinitebubble.com (pia140-70.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6616743D39 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:08:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@infinitebubble.com) Received: from localhost (thor.infinitebubble.com [10.10.1.1]) by mail.infinitebubble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 366B03435A; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.infinitebubble.com ([10.10.1.3]) by localhost (thor.infinitebubble.com [10.10.1.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 64671-09; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (aurvandil.infinitebubble.com [192.168.1.1]) by mail.infinitebubble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D13A633CE2; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:08:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41EAE5C8.5000502@infinitebubble.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:08:08 -0800 From: Jason Taylor User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20041022) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Slade References: <1105909504.13262.16.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1105909504.13262.16.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at infinitebubble.com cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Compaq PL5000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:08:50 -0000 Robert Slade wrote: > Hi, > > I've have been running Fedora for a couple of months and wanted to move > to a more stable OS and was recommended BSD. > > I have an old Proliant 5000 server (Quad Processors, 1GByte Memory, Raid > array) that I have been using as a test system. I have just tried to > install Free BSD 5.3 on it and ran into problems, > > If I allow the default at the 1st screen, the machine hangs at: > > pci2: on pcib2 > > trying the other options eg with acpi support, safe mode etc I get a > kernal panic: > > cpu0 on motherboard > make device: can't find device vt > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernal mode > Etc > > panic: page fault > > I note that during boot only 16Mbyte of memory is recognised. I had this > problem with Fedora etc which lead to a kernal panic. I guess that this > is the same problem as above. In that case I was able to correct this by > adding mem=1008M as a kernal parameter during boot. I cannot see how to > do that with Free BSD. Is this possible with Free BSD or am I barking up > the wrong tree with this problem? > > Rob > Choose the "Escape to loader prompt" option, then: > set hw.physmem="1048576k" > boot Once you have a working install, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: hw.physmem="1048576k" ...and now for the disclaimers... I'm no expert. Others may have better ideas and/or corrections to this. My calculation about how many k = 1G may be off.