Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:36:11 -0700 From: "Mahlon E. Smith" <mahlon@martini.nu> To: sbruno@freebsd.org Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810 Message-ID: <20100723003611.GA66678@martini.nu> In-Reply-To: <1279836216.2456.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20100722213836.GH15227@martini.nu> <1279836216.2456.14.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote:
>
> 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"
Thanks for the suggestions, Sean.
On a whim I decided to try with 8.1-RELEASE (since I obviously started
trying to get this goin' before it came out) -- lo, it put me right into
the sysinstall. ... that was an easy fix. Heh. (Is kern.smb.disabled
set for the 8.1 install or something? I didn't change anything
in between attempts.) In any event -- yaaaaay!
Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading
("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably.
Similar errors as before if I enable it.
real memory = 103079215104 (98304 MB)
avail memory = 99492831232 (94883 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL PE_SC3 >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 24 CPUs
FreeBSD/SMP: 4 package(s) x 6 core(s)
Holy cow, that's a nice sight.
Got one panic shortly after getting it on the network:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7234177/panic.jpg
... but it looks like I'll have a lot of kernel and sysctl tweaking to
do regardless ("ix0: RX Descriptors exceed system mbuf max, using default
instead!"), so I'll report back to the list if the panic re-appears after
some tuning.
--
Mahlon E. Smith
http://www.martini.nu/contact.html
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