From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 15:29:07 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 7744A16A418 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA3613C49D for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:29:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E991A4D81; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:05:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:53:09 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <46E92139.1030508@adam.com.au> <20070913153342.GJ945@void.codelabs.ru> In-Reply-To: <20070913153342.GJ945@void.codelabs.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709271053.09977.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Pete 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, 27 Sep 2007 15:29:07 -0000 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