From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 7 10:21: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from thalia.fm.intel.com (fmfdns02.fm.intel.com [132.233.247.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4D737B41B; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from fmsmsxvs041.fm.intel.com (fmsmsxv041-1.fm.intel.com [132.233.48.109]) by thalia.fm.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.49 2002/01/25 02:16:58 root Exp $) with SMTP id SAA09758; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 18:20:57 GMT Received: from FMSMSX018.fm.intel.com ([132.233.42.197]) by fmsmsxvs041.fm.intel.com (NAVGW 2.5.1.16) with SMTP id M2002020710214701311 ; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:21:47 -0800 Received: by fmsmsx018.fm.intel.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <13HR8GPC>; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:20:57 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Frost, Stephen C" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" , "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Cc: "Frost, Stephen C" Subject: FreeBSD onto An Intel Saber 8-Proc Server Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:20:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All - I am relatively new to the FreeBSD environs and am a test engineer for Intel, testing NICs and NIC drivers. I have installed/uninstalled FreeBSD 4.3 thru 4.5 on a diverse array of machines, but am stumped when it comes to the Intel Saber. (This is an 8-proc box running 700MHz Zeons, 8 GIG RAM - and yes, I do know the "set hw.physmem=3G" workaround for over 4 GIG machines) line in the loader.conf. Using the same install process that I have for all other successful installs, I am currently installing 4.5 off of NFS. I get results I have not seen before - none of which lead to a properly built box. It is worth noting that this same box runs Linux, Solaris and OpenUNIX8 without issue. I boot to a FreeBSD Kernel floppy which spins and prompts for the MFS Root disk. It announces that 'Memory above 4 GIG will be ignored". The kernel boots, I skip kernel configuration, it goes through the regular rigamaroll, announces an error on IRQ7, and then pauses ahc0: port 0x1000-0x88000000-0x88000fff irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci0 aic7892: Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/25 SCBs isp0: port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0x8b000000-0x8b000fff irq 7 at device 10.0 on pci0 Now it pauses for several (~5) minutes... isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x2) Timeout pauses for another several minutes.... isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x34) Timeout isp0:Mailbox Command 'SET CLOCK RATE' failed (TIMEOUT) pauses for another several minutes.... then shows: pci0: unknown card or vendor... and then into the rest of the stuff. At which point, it finally goes into sysinstall - precisely 20:07 minutes later! All things look great until, after choosing NFS for installation preference, it does not see my standard Intel 10/100 NIC, and installation can go no further. If instead of NFS, I choose 'CD' (Using 4.5 taken from the freebsd.org's released ISO image) I am able to install up the system, but once rebooted (allow another 20:07), cannot see the NIC (i.e. doesn't show up in ifconfig, even though it's built into the kernel.) Also, if I interrupt the kernel boot and add the "set hw.physmem=3G" statement before booting, I get a 'panic': "RAM parity error, likely a hardware failure. blah, blah...". I presume that has to do with the message upfront saying "memory above 4GIG ignored..." I don't know why it is doing that automatically. So I'm not doing that. Please reply to me directly. Thank you. - -=C. Stephen Frost=- Intel Corp. ICG - Network Quality Labs Software Test Engineer 503.264.8300 Any opinions stated are my own and not those of my employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message