Installing on zx6000

[Émeric Maschino]

Hi,

Same problem here. I didn't get an answer when reported back in May
(http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2012-May/003236.html).
My zx6000 has the latest firmware. From what I understand, this issue
is specific to Madison CPUs.

     Emeric


2012/6/22 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk>:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 04:47:31PM -0400, Mike Burrell wrote:
>> I'm trying to install FreeBSD on an HP zx6000 without much success. I've
>> installed other operating systems on here before (such as Debian)
>> without difficulty, but I can't get FreeBSD to install properly from the
>> installation CDs.
>>
>> I tried this earlier in the year and people on the FreeBSD forums
>> suggested that this was a known issue and that using old releases of
>> FreeBSD might work better. Here's a link to the FreeBSD forum where I
>> originally asked the question:
>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28615
>>
>> I've tried now:
>> - FreeBSD 9.0-RC3
>> - FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
>> - FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE
>> - FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE
>>
>> In each case, I've verified the hashes to ensure the discs were
>> downloaded and burned correctly. I burned the
>> FreeBSD-x.x-ia64-RELEASE-disc1.iso to CD and booted. What I get each
>> time is:
>>
>> FreeBSD/ia64 EFI boot, Revision 3.1
>> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
>> /boot/kernel/kernel data=0xfef1f8+0x82710 syms=[0x8+0x0xb1120+0x8+0xa62a9]
>> \
>> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
>> Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0x9ffc000000010500...
>>
>> At that point, it either hangs indefinitely or does a hard reset after a
>> few seconds. No matter which version of FreeBSD I try to install, I've
>> never been able to get past the "Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at ..."
>>
>> Has anyone come across this issue before? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Probably not your issue, but make sure
> you update the firmware:
>
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=82069&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=82067&swLang=13&taskId=135&swEnvOID=54
>
> (although it looks like HP haven't updated
> firmware for this box for years.)
>
> and reset MP before booting.
>
> Resetting MP helped me many times, although
> I never encountered this particular issue.
>
> --
> Anton Shterenlikht
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