From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 29 04:18:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C36D816A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:18:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.infinitebubble.com (pia140-70.pioneernet.net [66.114.140.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A34743D62 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:18:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jason@infinitebubble.com) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (aurvandil.infinitebubble.com [192.168.1.1]) by mail.infinitebubble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CA2333FE9; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:18:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <41087AA4.3040100@infinitebubble.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:18:44 -0700 From: Jason Taylor User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040721) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Fitzpatrick References: <1091070008.10979.12.camel@columbus.webtent.org> In-Reply-To: <1091070008.10979.12.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Compaq Proliant 800 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:18:57 -0000 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Trying to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Compaq Proliant 800, looking for > someone that has done this or similar. Of course, you have to have the > SmartStart CD, I have that, I choose System Erase and it loads the > Compaq partition and the FreeBSD goes without error and when I reboot I > get 'Invalid partition type', that's it. After System Erase, I set the > configuration to Unix (Large Geometry), there are 4 SCSI drives, two > 18GB and two 9GB, FreeBSD finds and represents all correctly on install. > Seems the Compaq BIOS is just not letting me use those partitions as > active? > It's been a while since I actually did this and I wasn't bright enough to document the process. This is an a Proliant 1500. I believe I picked the SCO UnixWare 7 configuration just because it was the only one with Unix in the name. I think the only significance that choice has is in what, if any, wizardy type install option you're given. Additionally, I had to do at least the following two things to get it working. There may have been more. Again, I foolishly did not document the process. Set the APIC mode to "Full Table - Mapped" per the directions at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-October/021692.html Set the amount of physical memory in /boot/loader.conf like so: hw.physmem="98304k". Of course, you'll substitute a value that reflects the amount of memory your box actually has. On the first go round you'll need to pick the option from the Beastie menu to get to a boot prompt and type in: 'set hw.physmem="98304k"' and then 'boot' or, to play it safer, 'boot -s'. Hope this helps. :-)