Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:08:08 -0800 From: Jason Taylor <jason@infinitebubble.com> To: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> Cc: "freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org" <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Compaq PL5000 Message-ID: <41EAE5C8.5000502@infinitebubble.com> In-Reply-To: <1105909504.13262.16.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> References: <1105909504.13262.16.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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Robert Slade wrote: > Hi, > > I've have been running Fedora for a couple of months and wanted to move > to a more stable OS and was recommended BSD. > > I have an old Proliant 5000 server (Quad Processors, 1GByte Memory, Raid > array) that I have been using as a test system. I have just tried to > install Free BSD 5.3 on it and ran into problems, > > If I allow the default at the 1st screen, the machine hangs at: > > pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2 > > trying the other options eg with acpi support, safe mode etc I get a > kernal panic: > > cpu0 on motherboard > make device: can't find device vt > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernal mode > Etc > > panic: page fault > > I note that during boot only 16Mbyte of memory is recognised. I had this > problem with Fedora etc which lead to a kernal panic. I guess that this > is the same problem as above. In that case I was able to correct this by > adding mem=1008M as a kernal parameter during boot. I cannot see how to > do that with Free BSD. Is this possible with Free BSD or am I barking up > the wrong tree with this problem? > > Rob > Choose the "Escape to loader prompt" option, then: > set hw.physmem="1048576k" > boot Once you have a working install, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf: hw.physmem="1048576k" ...and now for the disclaimers... I'm no expert. Others may have better ideas and/or corrections to this. My calculation about how many k = 1G may be off.
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