From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 04:58:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDB31065674 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 04:58:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF3228FC0C for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 04:58:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.35]) by QMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id any71a0060ldTLk56sxbUU; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:57:35 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id asy91a00H2P6wsM3QsyAfT; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:58:10 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=njofuhhJf0EA:10 a=sCW41k2n5G0A:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=_dKFEBIhSX0__-9XOTEA:9 a=x-MXBwFoyW93CDOPROGNHNO9WqcA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5CD67C9419; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:58:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 20:58:09 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Kevin Message-ID: <20081104045809.GA38528@icarus.home.lan> References: <000001c93e35$9d456790$d7d036b0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c93e35$9d456790$d7d036b0$@com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL360 G3 w/ AMD64 Cant boot from CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:58:12 -0000 On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 11:27:13PM -0500, Kevin wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install FreeBSD on my HP DL360 G3 server with 8GB of ram. I > need to use the AMD64 distribution, as I understand, to utilize over 4GB of > ram. > > Unfortunately I cannot boot from any of the FreeBSD CDs : > > > 7.0-RELEASE-AMD64 > 6.3-RELEASE-AMD64 > > > I will try 8.0-CURRENT-AMD64, however I don't think it will matter. Since > I'm not using "unusual" hardware, but rather hardware that has been > established at least since 2003, I was hoping that someone else may have > encountered this problem. > > If anyone can assist me , it would be greatly appreciated. Can you please try 7.1-PRERELEASE or 6.4-RC2 (just announced today)? There have been bootstrap-related changes since 7.0-RELEASE which may fix your problem. > The specific error message is as follows : > > > int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00010006 eip=000219b2 > eax=000219ac ebx=00000000 ecx=c0000080 edx=0006d948 > esi=0003e007 edi=00000000 ebp=000940bc esp=0009e088 > cs=0008 ds=0010 fs=0010 gs=0010 ss=0010 > cs:eip=0f 32 0d 00 01 00 00 0f-30 0f 20 e0 83 c8 30 0f > 22 e0 b8 00 c0 03 00 0f-22 d8 0f 20 c0 0d 00 00 > Ss:eso=90 95 00 00 00 80 fc 00-00 90 fc 00 07 e0 03 00 > 00 00 00 00 07 d0 03 00-00 00 00 00 3c d9 06 00 > BTX halted > > The above happens /JUST/ after pressing "enter" at the boot screen when > booting from the FreeBSD cd. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |