Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-31 Thread Claus Guttesen
> 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: > Free

RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-31 Thread Danny Cooper
t: 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 (

Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-31 Thread Claus Guttesen
> Firewire, usb all the NIC's except em and removed all RAID and SCSI > controllers to make sure nothing would interfere. Yes, but if you do not change the usbd_enable="YES" to "NO" in /etc/rc.conf, it will load a kernel module which may trigger the panic. > I tried to boot with the AMD64 CD but

RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-05-31 Thread Vinny Abello
r RedHat!!! DC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Claus Guttesen 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

RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-01 Thread Alan Jay
Hi, I have a Tyan based 1U computer with twin Xeon and 6Gb RAM which we recently installed 5.4 Release on. When we recompiled the kernel with the SMP and PAE options it would randomly reboot but so far (touch wood) using it with just 4Gb or RAM and removing the PAE kernel (just leaving the SMP on

RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-01 Thread Danny Cooper
June 2005 05:10 To: Danny Cooper Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4 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 flashe

RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-01 Thread Gary Schrock
ds Danny -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinny Abello Sent: 01 June 2005 05:10 To: Danny Cooper Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4 What BIOS revision are you running in your 2850? Make sure all y

Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-02 Thread David Barnett
that system, I've just completely disabled it. After that, it's run flawlessly for about 6 months now. Regards Danny -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinny Abello Sent: 01 June 2005 05:10 To: Danny Cooper Cc: freebsd-stable

RE: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-02 Thread Danny Cooper
load, so far so good. DC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Barnett Sent: 02 June 2005 17:52 To: Gary Schrock Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4 Gary, I'm fighting the same battle

Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-02 Thread David Barnett
d-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4 Gary, I'm fighting the same battle on two new 2850's and two 1850's; "Interrupt storm detected on "irq18:uhci2"; throttling interrupt source". These machines have 2GB of ram and I using the i386

Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-03 Thread Michael VInce
on that system, I've just completely disabled it. After that, it's run flawlessly for about 6 months now. Regards Danny -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinny Abello Sent: 01 June 2005 05:10 To: Danny Cooper Cc: freebsd-stable

Re: DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

2005-06-09 Thread Danny Howard
Danny, A late reply, but I had some nasty trouble recently with some dual-Xeon SuperMicros. The install CD would crash and burn, unless I nooted in safe mode. Once I installed FreeBSD I'd have MASSIVE troubles with stability unless I booted in safe mode, which I would use to build an SMP ke