Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:12:12 -0700 (PDT) From: backyard <backyard1454-bsd@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD HP Netserver LH 3000 hang at sysinstall Message-ID: <639857.60288.qm@web83104.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I have an HP Netserver LH 3000 Server w/ 2x 800 MHZ pIII 1128 MB RAM (HP Parts) Integrated Netraid, 4 drives 100 GB of storage Bios 4.06.33 PT MMC 10.46 netraid bios 2.04 firmware 1.12 I have scene posts that quote this hardware working with LH 3000/6000 (2-way piii, 6-way piii xeon) basically all applied updates available from HP short of the Ultra3 conversion, which they say don't do unless your migrating to ultra3; which I will be but lack the hardware and don't want more mess on my hands. FreeBSD 6.2-Release, 6.0-Release, and FreeSBIE 1.1 ( Rel_5.4 I think) tried to no avail. Would dig up my Rel_5.x disks but if FreeSBIE won't work... I can't boot with ACPI enabled have to hit 2 at loader screen. which is fine any computer rated at 1.2 KW isn't going to have power management... although with the bios updates I think it will work now, but I still have been hitting 2 most of the time. Everything works fine until sysintall loads. The keyboard just doesn't work. Caps lock etc al does nothing no Leds light up. Sometimes it seems during the "probing devices" message the keyboard appears to go through a bus reset, and it doesn't come back. sometimes it doesn't appear to reset at all; all leds lighting up and turning off again is what I mean by reset. I have tried two keyboards, both do the same. With FreeSBIE 1.1 I can get as far as md1.gzip loading 12454 blocks of 65535 or soemthing basically when it is loading up the Ramdrives and that is typed from memeory. usually it never leaves the splash screen. I haven't scene anything in my searches as to why I cannot get this thing to work. the biggest issues seem to be ACPI and EISA SCSI... I did see one thing on Interupts but I haven't found it again since. I have tried disabling SE SCSI, IRQ sharing, turning netraid back to LVD SCSI, pulling out option boards I'm not using (2 network cards). I've tried disabling hot swap PCI resources, changing the sharing methods from smart to fixed. My guess is the keyboard is sharing an IRQ with something FreeBSD doesn't like but I am not sure how to fix that, or if that is even the issue. I've considered putting jumpers on the hot swap RAID drives because I know FreeBSD doesn't like autoenumeration of SCSI devices, but I don't think this is a storage issue. And this (when I set the jumpers manually in the past) was a problem with finding drives not booting into sysinstall Has anyone had issues like this with FreeBSD on an HP netserver? I have seriously considered giving up and installing eComstation and running BSD in a virtual machine, but I would rather be running BSD on this box. Please respond to backyard1454-bsd (some-kind-of-symbol) yahoo (a-seperator) com as I am not on the questions list. Thanks for any help that can be offered, Brian McKeon
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