FreeBSD 6.x and HP?

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 13 September 2007 11:33:43 am Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Pete, good day.
> 
> Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 09:08:33PM +0930, Pete wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I didn't tried FreeBSD on these servers, but for Linux 64-bit systems
> demand that "8042 Emulation Support" must be disabled (BIOS, menu
> "Advanced").  Try this, may be it will help, especially if you have
> no problems with FreeBSD/i386 and 8042 emulation is currently enabled
> on your machine.
> 
> Drop me a letter if things will fail for you, I might be able to
> check FreeBSD/amd64 on the DL140 G3 I have at hand.

FreeBSD 6.x should work fine on a DL 140 G3, and you don't have to fiddle
with the 8042 emulation stuff (either setting works).  I think it might hang
on reboot if 8042 is turned off though (fixed in 6.2-stable).

-- 
John Baldwin