installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Give it up.  First, you need to set Windows or DOS in the BIOS setting
not SCO.  SCO sets up the SMP table all wrong.  that should also
fix the mem reporting problem.

But the big problem is that the ida driver crapped up support for
EISA cards some time ago.  I keep meaning to setup a test Proliant
and bug the ida driver author to fix it, but I have never got round
tuit.

If you can find a PCI compaq raid card you might get somewhere.

Ted

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Shackelford" <lee_shackelford at dot.ca.gov>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:27 AM
Subject: installing 6.1 on Compaq Proliant 5000


>
> Good morning dear FreeBSD enthusiasts.  I am attempting to install FreeBSD
> 6.1 on a Compaq Proliant 5000.  The computer is equipped with four Pentium
> Pro processors clocked at 200 mhz and with a Smart 2/P hardware-RAID
array.
> The BIOS indicates that the first two processors have failed.  They are
> actually okay, but there is something wrong with their socket on the
> motherboard.
>
> The following sequence is being quoted from human memory.  I ran
SmartStart
> with the request to install S.C.O. OpenUnix.  Of the operating systems
> supported by SmartStart, this one sounded the most similar to FreeBSD.
> Then I rebooted with the CD containing FreeBSD 6.1 in the SCSI CD-ROM
> reader.  To my surprise, the computer booted off of the CD-ROM.
Initially,
> the screen displayed in black-and-white.  When a list box appeared, I
> entered the request for a command prompt.  The monitor immediately
> displayed a command prompt.  I entered the following commands:
>
> load ida
> load sym
> set Hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
> set Hw.physmem=1048576K
> boot
>
> The fourth command was entered because the boot program does not correctly
> interpret the memory size from the information transferred to it from the
> BIOS.  Then a lengthy list of device drivers either installed, or
> failed-to-install, scrolled down the face of the monitor, still in
> black-and-white.  Then the screen displayed a blue background, and a
> colored message appeared saying "probing for devices."  Then it displayed
a
> message to choose a country code.  The display delayed response to
keyboard
> entries by two minutes or more for each keystroke.  I selected "United
> States."  Several minutes later, the list box disappeared, and screen
> became blank blue.  One-half hour later, another list box displayed which
> gave the user choices of the type of install desired.   There was
> absolutely no response on the screen to any keyboard entry.  What am I
> doing wrong?  Any and all suggestions will be appreciated.  Yours truly,
> Lee
>
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