Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:34:10 -0400 From: Walter Vaughan <wvaughan@steelerubber.com> To: Pete <piratepockets@adam.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x and HP? Message-ID: <46E92E42.7080208@steelerubber.com> In-Reply-To: <46E92139.1030508@adam.com.au> References: <46E92139.1030508@adam.com.au>
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Pete wrote: > Hey there, > > I've been having a rather unusual, but very annoying issue with HP DL140 > G3 Servers and FreeBSD. I thought I might give the mailing list a try to > see what I can find and whether anyone else has had similar issues. When > trying to install FreeBSD 6.x AMD64, as these boxes look to have the > Woodcrest core Xeon CPUs (5100-series), which support EMT64T, I have > encountered the following issues. > > When using FreeBSD 6.1, I can't even get as far as sysinstall. The > server tends to hang when initializing the drives just before it enters > into the usual setup utility. When using FreeBSD 6.2, I can get into > sysinstall, however, I get as far as configuring the slices and starting > the install. After this has been done it begins extracting the data into > the root directory, the machine then hangs. I don't believe it to be a > hardware fault within a single machine as I have tried with a total of 3 > of these machines with the same configuration. > > My original thoughts were with the LSI RAID controller I have in the > machine. However, If I use the i386 FreeBSD 6.2 CD to install, the > installation completes fine, the server reboots and comes up normally. > No issues with drives, etc. So you are trying to install FreeBSD-AMD64? Hum. FreeBSD was first OS to support the AMD64 AFAIK. This has been working for a long time. Does your bios have a setting to enable/disable 64 bit mode? Did you check this setting in your bios? http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2006-July/008613.html You don't want 4 gigs of memory it that is what you have. Pull out a stick or add a stick. Download/burn/Pop in a Ubuntu AMD64 CD. See if that comes up fine. If that works, try a snapshot release of "current", but I don't think there is magic in 7.0 that 6.2 does not possess in this case. Its going to be something simple.
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