Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:36:04 -0700 From: Travis Pugh <tdp@eng.mstarmetro.net> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: AMD64 Stable fails to boot on Dell PowerEdge 1950 Message-ID: <20061031173604.GD67053@mail.eng.mstarmetro.net> In-Reply-To: <20061031114553.ef730ec0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <45423B3B.2080703@eng.mstarmetro.net> <185DC54D-A21E-4584-82D3-55608DBBE704@khera.org> <20061031114553.ef730ec0.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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I've had no difficulty with 1950/2950 installs, as long as the disk controller is the PERC 5/I. I don't know if this holds for Vivek's experience as well. However, with the SAS5 controller (LSILogic SAS) AMD64 won't boot without either: - ACPI / APIC disabled, killing SMP - Any BCE interfaces disabled in BIOS -travis On 31/10/06 11:45 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: >In response to Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>: > >> >> On Oct 27, 2006, at 1:00 PM, Travis Pugh wrote: >> >> > Is there something I'm missing with regards to ACPI on the AMD64 >> > platform? I've read here that i386 boots fine on the same hardware. >> >> I have one piece of dell equipment which insists on disabling ACPI >> timer and then everything works. Disabling ACPI totally seems >> undesirable under normal circumstances. > >I've done multiple installs of 6-STABLE on a 1950 without problems. >One of them was used to create a custom install CD that I'm using today >to install on several others. Haven't had to tweak anything at all >in the BIOS. > >I missed the start of this thread. Did you give any more hardware >details? > >-- >Bill Moran >Collaborative Fusion Inc. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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