SOLVED: ProLiant DL385 (G1) hangs on boot w > 4GB RAM

[Doug Poland]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:33:30PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I understand you're facing problems booting your DL385s on FreeBSD 8.
> We hit the same problem today, and found that the solution (or rather,
> workaround) is to boot in verbose mode. I'm not sure if this causes
> any performance regressions (it seems not), but to make it permanent,
> add -v to /boot.config (that is in the root directory).
> 
> Feel free to forward this to the -acpi list and start an investigation
> - it baffles me that this should magically make FreeBSD boot.
> 
> FYI, 7.2 works fine on the same hardware. And with this hack, 8.0
> works equally well.
> 
Hi Eirik,

Wow, that workaround allows these boxes to boot now, with more than 4GB
RAM.  Thanks for the tip!  

Interestingly enough, the boxes HANG with < 4GB RAM and boot verbose
selected.  Go figure?


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Regards,
Doug