FreeBSD v6.2-RELEASE with Compaq ProLiant 6400R

[jonathan michaels]

john,

thanks for teh timely responce

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:22:54AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 September 2007 07:18:41 pm jonathan michaels wrote:

> > i have several ProLiant (as well as several 6400r's) and all work very
> > well with freebsd.

except for tis stop on reboot and wait for some indeterninate time to
reboot, it is as if teh machine is stoping for some reason and waiting
??? just waiting as if it is asleep, none of teh leds are lit, except
for teh powersupply, it also has a redundant ps even if i plug that in
it dosent 'help' and none of teh fgiagnostic leds 'issue' error
warnings and there is no post messages or other warnings in teh
hardware error loging .. just a continuation of teh reboot process
where it left off (before it gets to post ??) and teh eventual boot.

i have 4 of these (6400R's) i'm wondering if this is a'generic' issue
or just specific to this one ??
 
> > 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".

i used solaris, for some reason that seemed the most sensible to use,
for as far as i could recall solaris was the most "bsd" like ??

dies the difference in teh memory seen/available have anything t do
with this ?? the machine has a little over 4 gb real dram, smart start
claims ththat ther is ony 3G8 but freebsd says that it starts with 3G6.

is there some way to be able t use the whole dram ?? 

most kind regards

jonathan

ps, old saying about looking gift horse in mouth ?? life, grin.

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