Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:36:11PM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote:
> > 
> > Funny you should mention this box.  I've been arm wrestling with this
> > beastie for a couple of weeks and finally had some amount of success
> > today.
> > 
> > A couple of things:
> > 
> > 1.  Reduce your RAM to 64G (seriously)
> > 2.  Don't use the H200 Dell RAID controller.  It's not supported yet.
> >  -- Use the 6i or whatever the mfi(4) card is called.
> > 3.  Don't compile in the ipmi(4) when you get the system up.
> >  -- I know there's an unpatched problem on 7 that is fixed in HEAD, but
> >     have no idea if its patched in 8
> > 4.  Try doing serial console installs. 
> >  -- at the Beastie prompt, hit [6]. then at the OK prompt, type "set   
> >     console=comconsole"
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions, Sean.
> 
> On a whim I decided to try with 8.1-RELEASE (since I obviously started
> trying to get this goin' before it came out) -- lo, it put me right into
> the sysinstall. ... that was an easy fix.  Heh.  (Is kern.smb.disabled
> set for the 8.1 install or something?  I didn't change anything
> in between attempts.)  In any event -- yaaaaay!
> 
> Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading
> ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably.
> Similar errors as before if I enable it.
> 
>     real memory  = 103079215104 (98304 MB)
>     avail memory = 99492831232 (94883 MB)
>     ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE_SC3  >
>     FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 24 CPUs
>     FreeBSD/SMP: 4 package(s) x 6 core(s)
> 
> Holy cow, that's a nice sight.
> 
> Got one panic shortly after getting it on the network:
>     http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7234177/panic.jpg
> 
> ... but it looks like I'll have a lot of kernel and sysctl tweaking to
> do regardless ("ix0: RX Descriptors exceed system mbuf max, using default

Nonetheless it should not panic. Jack may want to know back trace
information for the panic above.(CCed)

> instead!"), so I'll report back to the list if the panic re-appears after
> some tuning.
> 
> --
> Mahlon E. Smith  
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