From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 28 23:17:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E9F106566B for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:17:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 455CC8FC13 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:17:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n3SNI5wo016993 for ; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:18:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20090428180900.026d7900@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:17:24 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 090428-0, 04/28/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.94.2-exp/9301/Tue Apr 28 13:49:48 2009 on betty.computinginnovations.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: n3SNI5wo016993 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: cannot get FreeBSD 7.X to load on HP z400 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:17:59 -0000 I cannot get FreeBSD 7.X to load on an HP z400. I have tried 7.1 i386=20 release, 7.1 amd64 release, 7.2 amd64 RC2, 8.0 amd64 current. In all versions the loader stops just after the message: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0 I have tried to simplify the setup of this unit to a single SATA drive, and= =20 a single SATA CD/DVD drive. I have tried various BIOS settings, turning on and off cores in the CPU,=20 changing other IO setting, but still the install hangs. The z400 has the Intel=AE X58 Express chipset and a 4 core W3520 Xeon=20 CPU. This particular unit has 4GB RAM. If I can get the amd64 version to= =20 load on it, I'd like to run it with more RAM. But obviously the first=20 hurdle is getting the OS to boot to sysinstall. Any help would be appreciated. -Derek derek at computinginnovations.com --=20 This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.