DL380 G5 won't boot

[Rob Crommentuijn]

I have also tried the 6.1 release and won't even boot into the installer. 

I'm hoping to reinstall the machine with Geoff pointers this afternoon.

I well let you know if it works.

Kind regards,

Rob





Michael Vince <mv at thebeastie.org>
02-03-2007 08:23

 
        To:     Geoff Buckingham <Geoff.Buckingham at reuters.com>
        cc:     Rob Crommentuijn <RCrommentuijn at adimec.nl>, freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
        Subject:        Re: DL380 G5 won't boot


Is this information to fix the problem Rob is having specific to the 
DL380G5?

I still have a DL380G5 sitting on Amd64 mode / 6.1-Stable July 2006 
largely because I am afraid to upgrade it to 6.2 release because no one 
has given any positive feed back on the G5's proliants and 6.2.
When I originally placed 6.1 release on my G5 DL380 it was pretty much 
was not usable.
Would be great to see some one say something positive. I only got 1 of 
these machines so I am in no position to test.

Mike

Geoff Buckingham wrote:

>Make sure / (and therefore /boot) are at the front of the disk.
>Don't use the whole disk - swap as / if you have try reducing it to a
>few gig.
>Look at RAID/BIOS geometry settings particularly the 32/63 spt stuff. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Rob
>Crommentuijn
>Sent: 28 February 2007 15:27
>To: freebsd-proliant at freebsd.org
>Subject: DL380 G5 won't boot
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to install A HP dl380G5 with P600 controller, 2gb ram, 5
>146gb sas disk's in Raid 5 with hotspare.
>
>The installation of Freebsd 6.2 I386 (with the bootonly cd) goed well,
>with 1 small problem. When I want to create the slice for the
>partitions, the installer will give me a Geometry incorrect warning and
>sets it's to what it thinks is correct. The installation then goes
>without a problem. 
>
>When I reboot at the end of the installation it hangs at displaying the
>bootloader (i'm using the freebsd bootmanager). Then the system bleeps
>every few seconds. Rebooting using ctrl+alt+del is still possible, but
>it won't boot. Also tried the AMD64 edition, but problem is the same.
>
>Can you guys identify the problem i'm having? If you need some more
>information, just ask for it. 
>
>Rob Crommentuijn
>Systems and Network Administrator
>rcrommentuijn at adimec.nl
>Adimec Advanced Image Systems B.V.
>The Netherlands
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