Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:33:47 -0600 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Eirik ?verby <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: SOLVED: ProLiant DL385 (G1) hangs on boot w > 4GB RAM Message-ID: <20100128013346.GA56848@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <30261889-D33B-4A2A-88C1-17DFD2A6E343@anduin.net> References: <30261889-D33B-4A2A-88C1-17DFD2A6E343@anduin.net>
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On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:33:30PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > Hi, > > I understand you're facing problems booting your DL385s on FreeBSD 8. > We hit the same problem today, and found that the solution (or rather, > workaround) is to boot in verbose mode. I'm not sure if this causes > any performance regressions (it seems not), but to make it permanent, > add -v to /boot.config (that is in the root directory). > > Feel free to forward this to the -acpi list and start an investigation > - it baffles me that this should magically make FreeBSD boot. > > FYI, 7.2 works fine on the same hardware. And with this hack, 8.0 > works equally well. > Hi Eirik, Wow, that workaround allows these boxes to boot now, with more than 4GB RAM. Thanks for the tip! Interestingly enough, the boxes HANG with < 4GB RAM and boot verbose selected. Go figure? -- Regards, Doug
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