What BIOS revision are you running in your 2850? Make sure all your
firmware is up to date. I had problems with an slightly older Dell
2650 trying to install FreeBSD until I flashed the latest RAID
controller firmware. If this doesn't help, try running some
diagnostics on the hardware. Dell has some pretty extensive
utilities. I think you can boot a Dell diagnostic CD you download
from their web site. It's possible you have bad RAM.
At 11:50 AM 5/31/2005, Danny Cooper wrote:
With the kernel I removed all non-required devices
Firewire, usb all the NIC's except em and removed all RAID and SCSI
controllers to make sure nothing would interfere.
I tried to boot with the AMD64 CD but with no success, the machine just
hangs when it tries to load the CD, still trying to work out a solution to
the problem, but it just seems these DELL 2850 machines are for Windows or
RedHat!!!
DC
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Sent: 31 May 2005 16:15
To: Danny Cooper
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4
> I have installed FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE and upgraded to -STABLE on a DELL
> PE2850.
>
> FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #1: Wed May 25 23:43:12 BST 2005
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3192.22-MHz 686-class CPU)
> real memory = 5100273664 (4864 MB)
> avail memory = 4189892608 (3995 MB)
> MPTable: <DELL PE 016D >
> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
> cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0
> cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 6
> amr0: <LSILogic PERC 4e/Di> Firmware 516A, BIOS H418, 256MB RAM
>
> I have disabled ACPI HTT and enabled PAE to make the whole system memory
> available.
>
> However the problem I have is the system can crash at any moment, and is
not
> load related. As the crash info below is when the machine was in an 100%
> idle state.
I have the same hardware as well, running on the i386-port. I have
disabled usb with usbd_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf. I have no idea
whether this helps but havent't had an issue with the 2850. Except
with a qlogic-hba and the isp-driver (I suspect) *on* amd64, but *not*
on i386.
Claus
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