From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 13 13:01:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C6616A417 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:01:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wvaughan@steelerubber.com) Received: from toaster.steelerubber.com (toaster.steelerubber.com [166.82.96.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1541913C461 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:01:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wvaughan@steelerubber.com) Received: (qmail 41737 invoked by uid 89); 13 Sep 2007 12:35:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?166.82.96.28?) (166.82.96.28) by toaster.steelerubber.com with SMTP; 13 Sep 2007 12:35:12 -0000 Message-ID: <46E92E42.7080208@steelerubber.com> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:34:10 -0400 From: Walter Vaughan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <46E92139.1030508@adam.com.au> In-Reply-To: <46E92139.1030508@adam.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x and HP? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:01:57 -0000 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.