From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 12:52:19 2003 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 124B016A4CE for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:52:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net (avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FCB843FE1 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:52:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gws@silliman.net) Received: from user50.net168.nj.sprint-hsd.net ([65.164.204.50] helo=mgp.silliman.net) by avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AJJ1E-0004T1-00; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:52:16 -0800 Received: from silliman.net (gws.silliman.net [192.168.2.10]) by mgp.silliman.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id hAAKqENL036206; Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:52:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gws@silliman.net) Message-ID: <3FAFFA75.2000206@silliman.net> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:52:05 -0500 From: Guy Silliman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hoyer References: <3FAFA9BE.20306@silliman.net> <20031110200355.E31965@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> In-Reply-To: <20031110200355.E31965@gaff.hhhr.ision.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-27.6 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,HTML_10_20,HTML_MESSAGE,IN_REP_TO, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq 1850R panics with 5.x 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: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 20:52:19 -0000 Thanks for the reply... I will give 4.8R a shot - I am trying to get 5.1R to work... but I will pass if it is too rough for production machines. I will also try that bios tweak. Guy Olaf Hoyer wrote: >On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote: > > > >>I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz >>machine that works fine with Win2k server... but >>I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at >>sysinstall. >> >> > >Hi! > >Well, the old Compaqs have some quite rough edges, and 5.1R (or do you >use a -current snapshot?) is also in some things not that nice... >Sometimes you have to set it to NT4-OS Type. > > > >>I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned >>including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. >>I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts >>but no luck. >> >> >> >I had in my former company a 1850 running SMP with a 4.8-stable. >The onboard SCSI is basically a Symbios one, and it was recognized >without hassle. > >(Ok, it needs the compaq tool partition to do RAID stuff, but... well, >broke it during installation) > > > > >>I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the >>onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. >>I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x >>issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x. >> >> >> > >That ist strange indeed, my box (dual PIII-500) went fine. >But perhaps there is also a different Mainboard in, with some >undocumented change in the series. > >HTH >Olaf > > >