Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:53:09 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Pete <piratepockets@adam.com.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x and HP? Message-ID: <200709271053.09977.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070913153342.GJ945@void.codelabs.ru> References: <46E92139.1030508@adam.com.au> <20070913153342.GJ945@void.codelabs.ru>
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On Thursday 13 September 2007 11:33:43 am Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Pete, good day. > > Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:08:33PM +0930, Pete wrote: > > 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. > > I didn't tried FreeBSD on these servers, but for Linux 64-bit systems > demand that "8042 Emulation Support" must be disabled (BIOS, menu > "Advanced"). Try this, may be it will help, especially if you have > no problems with FreeBSD/i386 and 8042 emulation is currently enabled > on your machine. > > Drop me a letter if things will fail for you, I might be able to > check FreeBSD/amd64 on the DL140 G3 I have at hand. FreeBSD 6.x should work fine on a DL 140 G3, and you don't have to fiddle with the 8042 emulation stuff (either setting works). I think it might hang on reboot if 8042 is turned off though (fixed in 6.2-stable). -- John Baldwin
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