FreeBSD v6.2-RELEASE with Compaq ProLiant 6400R

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 26 September 2007 07:18:41 pm jonathan michaels wrote:
> greetings all,
> 
> i recently acquired a few Compaq ProLiant 6400r (4 gb dram, 4x fxp0
> 10/100 mhz nic, four PIII 500/100 mhz cpu with l2 cache of 1 Mb and
> Compaq smart array 221 scsi raid array controller), this machine shares
> the load with a similarly configured Compaq ProLiant 5500R. the raid is
> built from 4x36 gb Fujitsu 10K rpm scsi III hard disks, as a single
> 'drive' (striped i think) backed up to DLT-7000 tape streamer.
> 
> both these machines are running freebsd v6.2-release both run
> flawlessly once up and running .. the problems is with the ProLiant
> 6400R and freebsd (-release, versions 6.2, 6.1, 6.0, 5.2, 4.6, 4.4 and
> 4.2) once the machine is booted from the proprietary HP "SmartStart"
> cdrom to configure the host, freebsd works a real treat and has really
> good uptime, even on my poorish power but once i power down the
> machine for any reason it will not restart on the installed freebsd
> filesystems .. these machines (5500r/6400r) were ms win 2003 servers
> and i reconfigured them both to use unix (Solaris/unixware in teh
> configuration part of teh initial startup process).
> 
> i've Google'd, but, nothing like this is even mentioned, hinted at, i
> meant to say. MS Windows runs flawlessly as does FreeBSD once its booted,
> getting to to teh boot stage is the problem .. all that happens is teh
> light on teh cdrom turns yellow and the machine just sits there,
> waiting .. if it matters there is no MS Windows/Compaq ProLiant
> diagnostic tools filesystem on the raid/hard disk array setup.
> 
> i have several ProLiant (as well as several 6400r's) and all work very
> well with freebsd.
> 
> can anyone help, suggest, i have also down-load some of teh relevant
> doc's on teh HP/Compaq web-site and read, read and more read ...
> 
> most kind regards/appreciations

What did you set the OS type to in Smart Start?  If you used "other" then try
using a different setting such as "Novell Netware" or "UnixWare".

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John Baldwin