FreeBSD 6.x and HP?
Walter Vaughan
wvaughan at steelerubber.com
Thu Sep 13 06:01:57 PDT 2007
Pete wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I've been having a rather unusual, but very annoying issue with HP DL140
> G3 Servers and FreeBSD. I thought I might give the mailing list a try to
> see what I can find and whether anyone else has had similar issues. When
> trying to install FreeBSD 6.x AMD64, as these boxes look to have the
> Woodcrest core Xeon CPUs (5100-series), which support EMT64T, I have
> encountered the following issues.
>
> When using FreeBSD 6.1, I can't even get as far as sysinstall. The
> server tends to hang when initializing the drives just before it enters
> into the usual setup utility. When using FreeBSD 6.2, I can get into
> sysinstall, however, I get as far as configuring the slices and starting
> the install. After this has been done it begins extracting the data into
> the root directory, the machine then hangs. I don't believe it to be a
> hardware fault within a single machine as I have tried with a total of 3
> of these machines with the same configuration.
>
> My original thoughts were with the LSI RAID controller I have in the
> machine. However, If I use the i386 FreeBSD 6.2 CD to install, the
> installation completes fine, the server reboots and comes up normally.
> No issues with drives, etc.
So you are trying to install FreeBSD-AMD64? Hum. FreeBSD was first OS to support
the AMD64 AFAIK. This has been working for a long time.
Does your bios have a setting to enable/disable 64 bit mode?
Did you check this setting in your bios?
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-amd64/2006-July/008613.html
You don't want 4 gigs of memory it that is what you have. Pull out a stick or
add a stick. Download/burn/Pop in a Ubuntu AMD64 CD. See if that comes up fine.
If that works, try a snapshot release of "current", but I don't think there is
magic in 7.0 that 6.2 does not possess in this case.
Its going to be something simple.
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