Re: FreeBSD 6.x and HP?

Thanks for the quick response Walter.

Previously, I have tried with CentOS 5.0 as a 64-bit install, and I have 
managed to get that installed fine. I have a few machines in production 
running with that configuration. As for RAM, in this case, it was with 
only 2 gig in a 2x1024MB DIMM kit. I'm not sure as to the status of EIST 
however, I beleive it is enabled. I will check this out tomorrow when I 
have a chance as the machines themselves aren't at my home. I'll also 
give 7.0 a whirl and see what the outcome of that is.

Cheers again for the response.

Walter Vaughan wrote:
> 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.
>