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Quote indentation corrected. Trimmed. On Monday, 31 January 2005 at 21:16:03 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2005 5:30 PM, Brad wrote: > On January 31, 2005 8:13 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> "Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> Hi, I have recently acquired a Proliant 800 and a Proliant 5000 >>> server. The 800 installed quite cleanly and is currently running >>> FreeBSD 5.3 The 800 is a dual processor machine. When I try to >>> install >> >>> FreeBSD 5.3 on the 5000 (it's a quad processor machine ) it >>> panic's saying, >>> >>> panic: pmtimer_indentify >>> >>> Has anyone seen this before. As near as I can tell it involves the >>> power management of the computer. Only there isn't any in the >>> bios. Doing a verbose logging on the system I noticed that it has >>> just finished scanning the ISA bus and found nothing. Then it >>> panic's. I would appreciate any thoughts that the community might >>> have. >> >> Have you tried turning off ACPI in the install? >> >> Ok, when I boot the menu has default and then the second choice is to >> install with ACPI turned on... >> >> Tried that one and it progresses just a tad further. It reports: >> >> Orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem >> 0xe8000-0xedfff,0xc8000-0xcbfff,0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0 >> Pmtimer0 on isa0 >> >> Then the computer freezes at that point. >> >> What else could I tell you about this machine? >> >> 4 X 200MHz processors. >> 512Mb RAM >> Scsi hardware raid controller. > > That may be your problem. Depends on the RAID controller. Both my machines have RAID controllers (2DH). See http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-dec2004.html#10: it seems that 5.1 panicked. I'm pretty sure I had no trouble with 5.3, though. > If the system has an EISA raid array card you cannot install FreeBSD > on it. There is a bug in the compaq raid driver it won't work on > eisa. I don't think these machines are *that* old. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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