Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:30:54 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: jonathan michaels <jlm@caamora.com.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD v6.2-RELEASE with Compaq ProLiant 6400R Message-ID: <200709271730.54683.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070928031140.48970@caamora.com.au> References: <20070927091841.30821@caamora.com.au> <200709270922.54572.jhb@freebsd.org> <20070928031140.48970@caamora.com.au>
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On Thursday 27 September 2007 01:11:40 pm jonathan michaels wrote: > > > can anyone help, suggest, i have also down-load some of teh relevant > > > doc's on teh HP/Compaq web-site and read, read and more read ... > > > > > > most kind regards/appreciations > > > > What did you set the OS type to in Smart Start? If you used "other" then try > > using a different setting such as "Novell Netware" or "UnixWare". > > i used solaris, for some reason that seemed the most sensible to use, > for as far as i could recall solaris was the most "bsd" like ?? For Compaq's purposes, FreeBSD is not anything like Solaris. Other users (if you do a simple web search like I did when I replied to your e-mail) have had success with the options I mentioned above. > dies the difference in teh memory seen/available have anything t do > with this ?? the machine has a little over 4 gb real dram, smart start > claims ththat ther is ony 3G8 but freebsd says that it starts with 3G6. Assuming you are using FreeBSD/i386 and that you get it installed ok, you can try using a PAE kernel to get access to the full 4 GB of RAM. -- John Baldwin
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