FreeBSD v6.2-RELEASE with Compaq ProLiant 6400R

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 27 September 2007 01:11:40 pm jonathan michaels wrote:
> > > 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 ??

For Compaq's purposes, FreeBSD is not anything like Solaris.  Other users (if 
you do a simple web search like I did when I replied to your e-mail) have had 
success with the options I mentioned above.

> 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.

Assuming you are using FreeBSD/i386 and that you get it installed ok, you can 
try using a PAE kernel to get access to the full 4 GB of RAM.

-- 
John Baldwin