DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD

Kevin k at kevinkevin.com
Mon Nov 3 20:56:20 PST 2008


Hello,

I am trying to install FreeBSD on my HP DL360 G3 server with 8GB of ram. I
need to use the AMD64 distribution, as I understand, to utilize over 4GB of
ram.

Unfortunately I cannot boot from any of the FreeBSD CDs :


7.0-RELEASE-AMD64
6.3-RELEASE-AMD64


I will try 8.0-CURRENT-AMD64, however I don't think it will matter. Since
I'm not using "unusual" hardware, but rather hardware that has been
established at least since 2003, I was hoping that someone else may have
encountered this problem.

If anyone can assist me , it would be greatly appreciated.

The specific error message is as follows :


int=0000000d  err=00000000  efl=00010006  eip=000219b2
eax=000219ac  ebx=00000000  ecx=c0000080  edx=0006d948
esi=0003e007  edi=00000000  ebp=000940bc  esp=0009e088
cs=0008  ds=0010    fs=0010  gs=0010  ss=0010
cs:eip=0f 32 0d 00 01 00 00 0f-30 0f 20 e0 83 c8 30 0f
       22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00
Ss:eso=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00
       00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 3c d9 06 00
BTX halted

The above happens /JUST/ after pressing "enter" at the boot screen when
booting from the FreeBSD cd.


Thanks,

Kevin K.




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