From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 21:04:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C76816A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:04:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (likely.plus.com [84.92.24.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4EF43D46 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:04:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd@bathnetworks.com) Received: (qmail 13521 invoked by uid 510); 16 Jan 2005 21:05:05 +0000 Received: from 84.92.24.252 by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.80/645. spamassassin: 3.0.1. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(0.2/5.0):. Processed in 0.346675 secs); 16 Jan 2005 21:05:05 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: bsd@bathnetworks.com via lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(84.92.24.252):SA:0(0.2/5.0):. Processed in 0.346675 secs Process 13514) Received: from likely.plus.com (HELO ?84.92.24.252?) (bsd@bathnetworks.com@84.92.24.252) by lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk with SMTP; 16 Jan 2005 21:05:04 +0000 From: Robert Slade To: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1105909504.13262.16.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:05:04 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Compaq PL5000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 21:04:03 -0000 Hi, I've have been running Fedora for a couple of months and wanted to move to a more stable OS and was recommended BSD. I have an old Proliant 5000 server (Quad Processors, 1GByte Memory, Raid array) that I have been using as a test system. I have just tried to install Free BSD 5.3 on it and ran into problems, If I allow the default at the 1st screen, the machine hangs at: pci2: on pcib2 trying the other options eg with acpi support, safe mode etc I get a kernal panic: cpu0 on motherboard make device: can't find device vt Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernal mode Etc panic: page fault I note that during boot only 16Mbyte of memory is recognised. I had this problem with Fedora etc which lead to a kernal panic. I guess that this is the same problem as above. In that case I was able to correct this by adding mem=1008M as a kernal parameter during boot. I cannot see how to do that with Free BSD. Is this possible with Free BSD or am I barking up the wrong tree with this problem? Rob