Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Bruno
> Kind of a large patch, but in order to make an omlette, you need to > break a few servers. > > This is a diff against -CURRENT, not stable-8 as I didn't get a chance > to test it. It is directly based off of changes that peter@ made to the > Yahoo FreeBSD 7 tree. > > I have compile and boot te

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Bruno
> Kind of a large patch, but in order to make an omlette, you need to > break a few servers. > > This is a diff against -CURRENT, not stable-8 as I didn't get a chance > to test it. It is directly based off of changes that peter@ made to the > Yahoo FreeBSD 7 tree. > > I have compile and boot t

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mahlon-- > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > > Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading > > ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. > > Similar errors as bef

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mahlon-- > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > > Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading > > ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. > > Similar errors as bef

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, Mahlon-- > > On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > > Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading > > ("logical processors" bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. > > Similar errors as bef

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Mahlon-- On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > 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. I believe FreeBSD ships with MAXCPU set to 32

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:36:11PM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > 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:

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
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

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > > [...] > I suppose I could boot via console and log it all... come to think of > it, I'll go give that a try to get more comprehensive output Okay, here we go, output below my sig. "panic: Built bad topology" -- oh, dear. That's a new one for me.

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:38 -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: > Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. > 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 > on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly > appreciated, I'

Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly appreciated, I'm chomping at the bit pretty hard to put this hardware to use, an