Gateway ALR 9200
Stefan Bethke
stb at lassitu.de
Sun Jun 26 22:16:32 GMT 2005
Am 26.06.2005 um 20:33 schrieb Brian Duke:
> I picked up one of these and would like to run FreeBSD this beast.
>
>
Please familiarize yourself with the FreeBSD mailing list etiquette.
See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
While people on this list might or might not have ideas about what to
try, -questions or -stable is the proper forum.
If you have specific experiences with FreeBSD on this hardware, I'm
sure people on -smp would love to hear about it.
At any rate, people who are able to help you will probably require a
more detailed failure description.
Stefan
>
>
>
> The BTX loader fails right after the initial setup screen. I press any
> option except install prompt and it fails.
>
>
>
> I have :
>
> Gateway ALR 9200
>
> 4 processor xeon 500's
>
> 1 gig ram
>
> 1 adaptec 3200S scsi card running modified raid 5
>
> 6 drives. 2 sets of striped 3 and mirrored.
>
>
>
> I am having a difficult time finding anything that will load in
> this box.
>
> I prefer FreeBSD if possible. I've googled for a couple days and
> didn't find
> much help.
>
> Can someone help me get past this first hurdle?
>
>
>
> The OS I am loading is currently FreeBSD 5.3
>
> I went to adaptec and found some information about FreeBSD 4.11 and
> tried
> that version as well.
>
> I can get Solaris 10 to load but it fails to find the raid as a
> valid drive.
>
> Fedora Core 2 also boots and says it can't find a drive.
>
> The Raid boots up fine and builds with no faults.
>
> I have an adaptec driver for FeeBSD but I need to install enough OS to
> pkg_add the file.
>
>
>
> When I install a little 850 meg IDE drive and set that to master,
> Still the
> btx loader dies. Here is what the final screen says:
>
>
>
> /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x3fbfc data=0x1c04+0x112c
> syms=[0x4+0x72f0+0x4+0x97c7]
>
> /
>
> int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030002 eip=00005755
>
> eax=00000001 ebx=00000008 ecx=000039ff edx=00000082
>
> esi=0000579c edi=0000e873 edi=000003ba esp=0000037e
>
> cs=f000 ds=0040 es=f000 fs=9dc0 gs=f000 ss=9c46
>
> cs:eip=2e 0f 01 14 0f 20 c0 0c-01 0f 22 c0 eb 00 8e db
>
> 8e c3 8e e3 8e eb 0f 20-c0 24 fc 0f 22 c0 ea 78
>
> ss:esp=11 64 08 00 01 00 00 00-00 f0 c0 9d 02 02 51 e8
>
> 05 00 c2 ee 05 00 00 f0-00 00 1a 7d c4 5e dd e6
>
> BTX Halted
>
>
>
> I think I copied all that correctly.
>
>
>
> Has anyone got a quick idea why this fails right off?
>
>
>
> Brian Duke
>
> 303-952-4983
>
> Blue Incorporated.
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