Proliant 5000

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Brad
> Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 5:30 PM
> To: 'Lowell Gilbert'
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Proliant 5000
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lowell at be-well.ilk.org [mailto:lowell at be-well.ilk.org] On Behalf
> Of Lowell Gilbert
> Sent: January 31, 2005 8:13 AM
> To: Brad
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Proliant 5000
> 
> 
> "Brad" <wbsmith at accesscomm.ca> writes:
> 
> > Hi, I have recently acquired a Proliant 800 and a Proliant 5000 
> > server. The 800 installed quite cleanly and is currently running 
> > FreeBSD 5.3 The 800 is a dual processor machine. When I try 
> to install
> 
> > FreeBSD 5.3 on the 5000 (it's a quad processor machine ) it panic's 
> > saying,
> > 
> > panic: pmtimer_indentify
> > 
> > Has anyone seen this
> > before. As near as I can tell it involves the power 
> management of the 
> > computer. Only there isn't any in the bios. Doing a verbose 
> logging on
> 
> > the system I noticed that it has just finished scanning the ISA bus 
> > and found nothing. Then it panic's. I would appreciate any thoughts 
> > that the community might have.
> 
> Have you tried turning off ACPI in the install?
> 
> Ok, when I boot the menu has default and then the second choice is to
> install with ACPI turned on...
> 
> Tried that one and it progresses just a tad further. It reports:
> 
> Orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem
> 0xe8000-0xedfff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
> Pmtimer0 on isa0
> 
> Then the computer freezes at that point.
> 
> What else could I tell you about this machine?
> 
> 4 X 200MHz processors.
> 512Mb RAM
> Scsi hardware raid controller.

That may be your problem.  If the system has an EISA raid array card
you cannot install FreeBSD on it.  There is a bug in the compaq
raid driver it won't work on eisa.

Ted