From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 22:04:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F76C106564A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:04:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout3.yahoo.com (mrout3.yahoo.com [216.145.54.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4095E8FC15 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cheese.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.50.99]) by mrout3.yahoo.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/y.out) with ESMTP id o6MM3aua041538; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:03:36 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=serpent; d=yahoo-inc.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references: content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=GScYNvvbzoJP0UdChgcyYqBru2soNDeBVyT/QF+A2WD5y3B1gpSrVl7DZRlVsnbX From: Sean Bruno To: "Mahlon E. Smith" In-Reply-To: <20100722213836.GH15227@martini.nu> References: <20100722213836.GH15227@martini.nu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:03:36 -0700 Message-ID: <1279836216.2456.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sbruno@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:04:29 -0000 On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:38 -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. > 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 > on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly > appreciated, I'm chomping at the bit pretty hard to put this hardware to > use, and was fairly surprised that FreeBSD didn't work on it through the > gate. > > I've grabbed some screenshots from the DRAC, and dumped them here: > > http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/7234177/1/r810?h=f5fb1d > > (sorry, I realize that's not -incredibly- helpful and partially > truncated. I'm currently limited to what I can screenshot, though I > suppose I could boot via console and log it all... come to think of it, > I'll go give that a try to get more comprehensive output.) > > If I disable all the CPU options in the BIOS, I can get it to boot, but > it hangs after mounting md0 (I never see the sysinstall screen.) Same > deal if I try booting in safe mode or without ACPI. > > Otherwise, it spews errors for about 30 seconds so quickly I can't read > them, then panics with a page fault in swapper. > > I'm sure we'd like to get BSD installing reliably on such a beast, and > I'm more than happy to play the guinea pig if someone would be willing > to provide some direction with some things to try. Help! These are > expensive paperweights! :) > > -- > Mahlon E. Smith > http://www.martini.nu/contact.html Funny you should mention this box. I've been arm wrestling with this beastie for a couple of weeks and finally had some amount of success today. A couple of things: 1. Reduce your RAM to 64G (seriously) 2. Don't use the H200 Dell RAID controller. It's not supported yet. -- Use the 6i or whatever the mfi(4) card is called. 3. Don't compile in the ipmi(4) when you get the system up. -- I know there's an unpatched problem on 7 that is fixed in HEAD, but have no idea if its patched in 8 4. Try doing serial console installs. -- at the Beastie prompt, hit [6]. then at the OK prompt, type "set console=comconsole" Sean