I just installed 5.0 on a Compaq 360 with no problems. It booted from the CD just fine. It has a SmartArray controller in it also. I should be able to test it on a DL 380 soon.
I did have problems with an old Compaq Proliant Dual Pentium Pro box with SmartArray controller. I had to boot from a floppy. Ray On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 14:32, Daxbert wrote: > > > I'm having problems with Compaq Hardware as well. > > > > I don't know if this helps you, but the Compaq SmartArray Adapters have > > a service partition which must be the boot-partition. > > > > Only installed linux on these machines so far. I know that you have to > > configure the boot-partition for your OS but don't remember if freebsd > > was an option. > > > Actually you don't. The Compaq diagnostic partition doesn't have to be installed. >I've installed W2K, Linux, and FreeBSD 4.x w/o > the diagnostic partition. It can make your life easier, because you then don't need >the Smart Start CD to make BIOS changes, but > that's about it. > > My problem is with FreeBSD 5.0. Obviously something has changed, which is keeping >5.0's install CD, from booting on certain Compaq > hardware. > > --daxbert > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Ray Seals <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
