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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:49:41 +0200
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Florian Smeets <flo@kasimir.com>
Cc:        admin@stardothosting.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD 7.1 XEON Quad Core 
Message-ID:  <E1LXXGP-0006Zt-LJ@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <4993DCA2.4000504@kasimir.com> 
References:  <498CCB85.2080702@paladin.bulgarpress.com>  <gmkfbs$fjr$1@ger.gmane.org> <005901c98cb7$5e922670$1bb67350$@com>  <4993DCA2.4000504@kasimir.com>

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> On 12.02.2009 3:12 Uhr, SDH Support wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Yes, if you have (or plan to have) more than 3 GB of memory.
> >
> >
> > FYI I have had a lot of problems with FBSD7.x and HP DL-series hardware + amd64. There is a bug IIRC in the loader.
> >
> >
> 
> I had problems with DL3X0G5 when booting with PXE, every now an then the 
> loader would hang when trying to load the kernel from an i386 8-CURRENT 
> NFS server. As soon as i had installed everything and was booting from 
> the disks the problem did not show up anymore. I also used amd64.
> 
> Do you use PXE boot?

pxeboot is problematic on some platforms, try an older version
btw, if you succeed let me know.

thanks
	danny





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