On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote: > > Funny you should mention this box. I've been arm wrestling with this > beastie for a couple of weeks and finally had some amount of success > today. > > A couple of things: > > 1. Reduce your RAM to 64G (seriously) > 2. Don't use the H200 Dell RAID controller. It's not supported yet. > -- Use the 6i or whatever the mfi(4) card is called. > 3. Don't compile in the ipmi(4) when you get the system up. > -- I know there's an unpatched problem on 7 that is fixed in HEAD, but > have no idea if its patched in 8 > 4. Try doing serial console installs. > -- at the Beastie prompt, hit [6]. then at the OK prompt, type "set > console=comconsole"
Thanks for the suggestions, Sean. On a whim I decided to try with 8.1-RELEASE (since I obviously started trying to get this goin' before it came out) -- lo, it put me right into the sysinstall. ... that was an easy fix. Heh. (Is kern.smb.disabled set for the 8.1 install or something? I didn't change anything in between attempts.) In any event -- yaaaaay! Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. Similar errors as before if I enable it. real memory = 103079215104 (98304 MB) avail memory = 99492831232 (94883 MB) ACPI APIC Table: <DELL PE_SC3 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 24 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: 4 package(s) x 6 core(s) Holy cow, that's a nice sight. Got one panic shortly after getting it on the network: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7234177/panic.jpg ... but it looks like I'll have a lot of kernel and sysctl tweaking to do regardless ("ix0: RX Descriptors exceed system mbuf max, using default instead!"), so I'll report back to the list if the panic re-appears after some tuning. -- Mahlon E. Smith http://www.martini.nu/contact.html
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