Compaq Presario 6000 Install Failure FBSD 5.4 RELEASE

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Hi Roy,

  Proliant and Presario are two very different families!

  You might have to pull and replace that controller with a
3200, such as this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56091&item=5785129
537&rd=1

  The ida code has been around a while.  But before doing that
try setting the BIOS up to define the operating system as Windows NT
as I think the SCO Unix definition programs the raid card in some
weird way to where FreeBSD can't access the boot blocks or some
such.

  Also another thing that might help - run completely through the
Compaq Smartstart CD and install a diagnostics partition.  Do not
have FreeBSD delete this, and setup with the Multiboot manager (
the second one down in the choices)

Ted

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of RA Cohen
>Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 1:35 PM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Compaq Presario 6000 Install Failure FBSD 5.4 RELEASE
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I'm darned if I know what is going on with this -- I've
>installed many version 4.X and 5.X systems on Proliant hardware
>but this is the first failure (and the first Proliant 6000) --
>
>Presario 6000 dual processor
>Smart Raid 3100ES attached to 4 - 18 Gb 10,000 RPM UW SCSI
>drives. Configured as one RAID 0 array containing one physical =
>one logical drive and one RAID 5 array containing three physical
>=  one logical drive. Compaq utilities report no problem with
>any of this, and the system is up to date with firmware. System
>set up for a SCO Unix 7.1 install.
>
>As I don't really know how to export the boot messages, I can
>tell you it fails at a line that appears maybe a dozen lines
>after the md0: Preload image line:
>
>GEOM: Configure idad0s3 start 16384 length 37584896 end 37601279
>
>So apparently FBSD is having some problems either with the
>controller or possibly the drives themselves...?
>
>I've googled and searched the web to no avail. Older versions of
>FBSD did not have the ida code, but 5.4 surely does...your help,
>as always, is most appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>Roy
>
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