From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 3 01:37:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6126D106564A for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rondzierwa@comcast.net) Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D58F8FC12 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.71]) by qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id t4tW1i0061YDfWL56Dc7Fn; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:36:07 +0000 Received: from sz0154.wc.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.58.220]) by omta20.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tDc71i01l4l5d103gDc7V3; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:36:07 +0000 Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 01:36:07 +0000 (UTC) From: rondzierwa@comcast.net To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Message-ID: <1264832303.779883.1333416967866.JavaMail.root@sz0154a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <780197047.779466.1333416414233.JavaMail.root@sz0154a.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [68.50.136.212] X-Mailer: Zimbra 6.0.13_GA_2944 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Win)/6.0.13_GA_2944) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: tyan s2892 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:37:15 -0000 I'm replacing the motherboard my server from a tyan s2885 to a s2892 and am having some odd problems that I was hoping somebody could shed some light on. The board has two 280 cpu's and 4 x 2gb 400 mhz memory. The memory was working in my old s2885, so I'm fairly sure they are ok. I have tried the system with 2 and then with just 1 memory stick and the problems are the same. I have a 3ware 9550 pci-x raid controller, and the system boots from a sata ssd. I installed FreeBSD 8.2-release from dvd onto the ssd. The install went fine, but when I boot from the ssd, about halfway through the boot the system panics with a page fault. its fairly quick so its difficult to see exactly what happened just before the panic, and the system claims there is no dump device, so I don't have a dump. Also, when the raid controller is installed, the boot loader hangs. It presents the boot menu (windows/freebsd), I select F2 for FreeBSD, and it prints a "-" and hangs. After a minute, it reboots by itself, and will do the same thing over again. Partition 1 has dos installed and it boots ok with the raid controller installed. Is there something magic about the bios settings that needs to be set? Any ideas how to diagnose the problem? thanks, ron.