Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:47:32 -0700 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: "Mahlon E. Smith" <mahlon@martini.nu>, sbruno@freebsd.org, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: jfv@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810 Message-ID: <20100723004732.GH16185@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <20100723003611.GA66678@martini.nu> References: <20100722213836.GH15227@martini.nu> <1279836216.2456.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20100723003611.GA66678@martini.nu>
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:36:11PM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote:
> 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
Nonetheless it should not panic. Jack may want to know back trace
information for the panic above.(CCed)
> 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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