From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 00:36:11 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 D95B11065670 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:36:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mahlon@martini.nu) Received: from martini.nu (martini.nu [198.145.180.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1D178FC1A for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 67717 invoked by uid 1000); 23 Jul 2010 00:36:11 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:36:11 -0700 From: "Mahlon E. Smith" To: sbruno@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100723003611.GA66678@martini.nu> Mail-Followup-To: "Mahlon E. Smith" , sbruno@freebsd.org, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" References: <20100722213836.GH15227@martini.nu> <1279836216.2456.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1279836216.2456.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 19B8 DDB3 0156 3A03 FA80 8278 C0BE 6BFB 3606 B267 X-Sysinfo: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 i386 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) 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 List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:36:11 -0000 --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote: >=20 > 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. >=20 > A couple of things: >=20 > 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.=20 > -- at the Beastie prompt, hit [6]. then at the OK prompt, type "set =20 > console=3Dcomconsole" 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 =3D 103079215104 (98304 MB) avail memory =3D 99492831232 (94883 MB) ACPI APIC Table: 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 =2E.. 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 =20 http://www.martini.nu/contact.html --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFMSOP71bsjBDapbeMRAsXIAJoCjrX6/egwb8ng9wkHi74WdP4AdQCgqqNw utI/Nqycb60VDuvZeEit4Z4= =BWSn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --G4iJoqBmSsgzjUCe--